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A Camp is Its People

So much that makes a camp a camp is the people. Here is the story of the people who turned Heart O’ the Hills Inn into Heart O’ the Hills Camp. Heart O’ the Hills Camp was born of dual tragedies. It’s actually sort of a phoenix story, because it began when the inn burned down in November of 1947, …

Cemetery tradition

It has “sort of” become a tradition for the newly named recipient of the Jo Jones Memorial Sportsmanship Award to “pilgrimage” to the cemetery on the night she is honored—normally nearly midnight! If it sounds a bit creepy, I’ll give you some details of how the tradition began. I’m not entirely sure of exactly when it began, probably 10-12 years …