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作者: upiczdled    時間: 2016-10-7 17:54     標題: New York and New Jersey. 387

Visitors to Camp Workcoeman may find Young man Scouts honing their shooting expertise, climbing rocks, tossing the Frisbee on the lawn or taking a dip in Western side Hill Pond.
While the camp has grown in size and popularity, hikers today enjoy the same Brand new Hartford backwoods experience that Child Scout troops og jeg tror de fleste har en ting til felles Jeg er stolt av hva vi gjorde did Ninety days years ago.
"When you look back on the camp, you're looking back in the history of Scouting," said Lou Seiser, camp director. for those who summered from was ich will Workcoeman. Guests will be treated to the camp tour and a cookout.
Get away Workcoeman opened in 1924 with Fifty acres, seven tents and 100 campers for the summer time. The paved road por favor 41 leading to the camp was once nothing but a mud footpath.
The camp has grown to 500 acres, and is a temporary dwelling for over 1,100 people. New programs include gun shooting; science, technology plus mathematics and the low impression camping program Leave Not any Trace, said Seiser and May well Conaci, Scout craft director.
Workcoeman familiar with draw campers only via Litchfield County, but in the 1970s it began to attract Scouts utilizing states.
A en stabiele verwerking van edelsteen kwaliteit 02 troop from Ny visited in 1992. Right now, the camp is a summer the location of troops from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.
Nevertheless offers good, old fashioned open-air activities like swimming, wilderness emergency and archery. Seiser said he also attempts to incorporate aspects of the camp's history into lessons for outdoorsmen.
Etched in the dining hallway tables are the names associated with three people who were vital to the camp's beginnings   names with which Conaci said campers are familiar.
You are Frank E. Coe, president in the Torrington Council of Boy Scouts of America, who purchased the site within 1923. Coe coined the name "Workcoeman" through inserting his own name down the middle of his mother's maiden label, Workman.
He died of your heart attack five days after purchasing the home, and his wife, Jenny, passed down it. She founded a group called the Scout Mother's Reliable to provide more funding for any camp.
"Jenny Coe kept the camp living. She raised funds regarding things that weren't in the spending plan," Conaci said. "She bought a Victrola while in the 1920s, and a fireplace for that dining hall in 1927."
The names of E. Merel Hildreth in addition to Earl Bebe are also on the tables. Bebe was the first camp director inside 1924, and Hildreth redirected the program while in the 1940s so Scouts would come with their particular troops instead of alone, a task that remains in place.
A tour across the camp reveals two historic artifacts, a bell podium from 1885 and an altar built in 1965 by Sea Explorers from Ship 2 of the Trinity Religious organization in Torrington.
Among the altar's 80 pebbles are stones from the Alamo, Bermuda and England. The bell in the tower was provided to the camp in 1959.
"During WWI, the bell rang throughout Torrington to round up people to invest in Liberty Bonds, and it ended up being rung when the war broken," Conaci said.
  
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