Place names

Places Names

There are so many names- people, history, and purposes, some long gone. (Who named that funky staff shack Walled Off, for example, or made up the name Papoose?)

Mary Crick’s, Steve Shane’s, Papoose, The Canteen, Irv’s tree (Usually not a great place to spend the afternoon), Irv’s outside office, Walled Off (Walled-Off Hysteria, one corner of it’s foundation turned out to be an old buggy), The Spring, The Cooks Shack, Staff Shack, Nurse’s Station, Archery, The Haunted Cabin (shack), Storytelling Tree, Benny-Ray’s, Highland Loop and Highland Ranch, Hendy Woods (not really part of camp), the Swimming Hole, the Barbeque Pit, the Italian Joke Tree, the Bullpen, Maintenance shack (lots of shacks), Maintenance Man’s House, the front gate, the Newman’s house, Dining Hall, Horseshoe pits, Ohcanarle (Elrancho?), 1’s through 8’s and then Zero cabin, The laundry and darkroom, Pahoo’s corner (when the teepee was up, The Tennis courts (first in Booneville and then up the hill), Dramuda, The downstaris bathroom (famous for it’s mirror and rare privacy), the swinging bridge, Arts and Crafts shack, the Flag circle (getting hands inspected, flag ceremony, Irv’s underwear), ...

Then there are lost of places that had less specific names but were non-the-less important to the camp geography. The baseball field, home of many a Camper-Counselor game (did we really make the counselors’ have eggs in their pockets?), the pastures full of irrigation pipes to pull, the campfire circle, the barn (one of the great building at camp from resort days), the dining hall, the pantry below the kitchen (a really cool place on a summer day), the parking lot, the orchard, the cow barn, chicken shack (yes another shack), the hill by the canteen (where I was first married), the Runway between the two main pasture, the Water Tanks, Navarro-by-the-Sea...

There are more I’m sure—each evokes memories, events, specific to the place and specific to ERN. This picture of the dining hall is courtesy of Greta's website
http://home.comcast.net/~gretadorfman/elrancho.html

Thanks again. Ryan