I see it's been quite awhile since I wrote an essay- this is due in part to saying much of what I wanted to include and also continuing the "chewing" process of making meaning, of finding thoughts and elements that occur through the long lens of now forty or more years. Snipettes arrive, swirl around and leave. The Harlem (Nancy) sisters, Paula Bachus, now a vet in Ashland, pamper campers and race relations, my career as a communitarian, ethics and the ethos of camp, field-stripping cigarettes, the Italian Joke tree, Uncle Ray-Ray, Walled-Off Hysteria, camper council, Look bars, ShowBoat, I love a parade, Junior wranglers.

And some times I find the sense of gentleness, the sense of meaningful-ness as I think not just about the hot summer days, or of the people and places that made this matter to me. Matter enough to still think about this 40 years later.

Where is Neal Rothman?

Ryan