Monthly Archives: May 2001

On the right track

By David Klinger I know we are on the right track because Juliet French told me so. When I first met this charming and delightfully engaging 91-year-old Providence, Rhode Island, woman, she was sitting quietly alongside “Gracie’s Garden”, not far from where she landed on Hog Island in 1936 as the Audubon Camp’s first arrival. … | Read more.

In: 2000s |

“We are warmed by fires that we did not build”

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By David Klinger David Klinger first came to Camp in 1972 as a “kitchen boy.” His time on the island encouraged him in the environmental field. When he wrote this essay in the spring of 2001, he worked at the U. S. Fish & Wildlife’s National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, as a … | Read more.

In: 1960s-70s |

A place in the heart

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By Bart Cadbury. At the top of the hill on Keene Neck Road in Bremen, Maine, I look out across Muscongus Bay to Burnt and Benner islands in the far distance. Nearer to shore, several other small islands rise out of the sun-flecked water. | Read more.

In: Beginnings, Spotlights | ,

Of teaching and adventure

By Art Borror Whenever I round that final bend at the end of the Keene Neck Road and look down upon what has to be one of the most marvelous views of the entire Maine coast, a flood of emotions and memories comes over me: many mornings spent there parking cars of incoming campers with … | Read more.

In: 1940s-50s | ,