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Date Posted: 17:15:23 05/19/08 Mon
Author: Sylvia
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Q & A with Bob and Charyl Hanson in Summer 2008 VT Life

The early days, the changes and making a difference...page 119 of the Summer edition of Vermont Life Magazine.

There are a couple of photos, too.

It's great to hear from alumnae who saw the article and contacted us to say they still remember their days at Camp Farwell.

Former camper Mary Louise Lockwood called. She was here in the early 50's when the Culverson's were here.

Are there former campers reading here who remember even earlier days?

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[> Great Article -- Tammie Kaman, 10:40:15 07/16/08 Wed

The article in VT Life is wonderful! It's great to "see" both of you and I enjoyed reading about Camp. They were wonderful summers!

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[> Remembering the forties and fifties. -- Charlotte Bidwell Bacon, 14:10:35 12/06/09 Sun

My aunt was a camper in the 1920s and I donated her riding trophy to the camp several years ago. I was an intermediate in '46, '47 and a senior in '48, '49 and a jaycee in '50, '51 and a counselor in '52, '53. (I think I have the dates remembered correctly!) I remember Mary Louise Lockwood, whose message the owners received. My camp nickname was "Charlie" (Bidwell) and I played reveille and taps some of those years. Getting up and putting that freezing cold bugle to my lips is a lingering memory.

We wore copen blues for every day and navy wool shorts and white blouses for Sunday. The teams were the Whites and the Blues...I was a White. Campers accumulated points for their team when they passed certain tests. As has been mentioned, it was competitive.

A few years ago I visited the camp when it was closed and walked around. Such vivid memories!

Some of the many campers I recall: "Peanut" McQuade, Nan Tobin, Parke Perkins, Marilyn and Carol Turtle, Phyllis Fraser, Donna Johnson, Allene Shore, Liza Lee Culbertson, Helen Schultz, Joan Nash, the Yingling twins, Jannie Atwood, "Lucky" Luckner, Arlene Williams, Carol Kormendy. If I thought longer, I could come up with others. What has become of them? I am 75 and some of them were older than I am. How difficult to trace female friends when many have changed their names. Did you younger ones know that Debbie Reynolds (the actress) was a camper in the '40s?

"Charlie"

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