Comments on: A Blast from the Past https://www.camphorseshoe.com/blog/news-and-events/a-blast-from-the-past/ Summer Camp For Boys in Wisconsin Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bill Firestone https://www.camphorseshoe.com/blog/news-and-events/a-blast-from-the-past/#comment-15 Wed, 11 Mar 2020 05:21:27 +0000 http://www.camphorseshoe.com/blog/?p=237#comment-15 Thx for showing my response. I loved my three summers at Horseshoe. As ColePorter said in the musical “Miss Me Kate”: WUNDERBAR. I hope that under Jordan and Fran Shiner’s direction, hundreds of more boys will love it as I did 64 years go. :-))

]]> By: Bill Firestone https://www.camphorseshoe.com/blog/news-and-events/a-blast-from-the-past/#comment-14 Wed, 11 Mar 2020 05:08:33 +0000 http://www.camphorseshoe.com/blog/?p=237#comment-14 I was a camper at Camp Horseshoe in Minong, WI the summer of 1956. I was 12 years old. I was also at Horseshoe in ‘57 and ‘58 — I think’56 was the summer when my mother called me at Horseshoe (a strict violation of parental rules) to tell me that she’d found a wonderful husband and they would marry when I got home to Chicago. And, indeed they did:-) He became my wonderful step-father. For gazillions of years. My mother, too.

I still remember when Gordie came to my cabin’s table in the Horseshoe dining hall to tell me there was an important call for me in his camp shed. I remember being elated. And they married that September ‘56. And he was an extremely important element in my life for the next 31 years. I still miss him and my mother, too.

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