Memories of Sakawawin Scout Reservation

Al McGeehan writes:
These were wonderful summers when as a scout back in the 1950s I, with many others, drove north on New Jersey State Route 206 and spent our week at Camp Sakawawin. It was many a scout camper's dream to someday have the chance to serve on the staff and then be able to stay for the entire summer. I spent two summers serving on the Campcraft Staff and drinking "bug juice" three meals a day. I left New Jersey in the fall of 1962 to Attend Hope College in Holland, Michigan and for the past 50 plus years have called Holland,"home". Now my youngest son is a scout master and his oldest son is working on his eagle rank while his younger son has just moved from Cub Scout to a Tenderfoot.
 
The Camp Sakawawin Canteen is where a camper could buy candy. The "camp rule" back then was if you saw another camper throwing a candy wrapper on the ground, the guilty camper was responsible to buy you the same candy bar from the canteen store. The clean strategy worked to perfection!

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photos by Al McGeehan