Camp memories

Dear Editor,

I am a MHS graduate, class of 1961, and I want to thank the person who wrote the Richard (Dick) Best story. His family and I met at the "Camp" North of Indianola.

Both families moved to town and later to McCook. Had we any sense we might have recognized that the living conditions weren't the best, but we thought it was great -- central steam heat, no "city" dangers -- What more could one ask for?

In the summer it wasn't unusual to leave the house in the morning, come back for dinner (now called lunch) and be gone until supper (now obsolete). My father was a geologist  and worked on most of the flood control dams in the area. I now live just north of Seattle and will have admit I do not read the Gazette online regularly. 

I also will tell you that the devil neither caused me to read this one or make me wear a dress (ah Mr. Wilson, where have you gone?).

I was back "home" last summer and, of course, visited the camp. As you probably know there isn't much left. The houses in Indianola and McCook are still there and look about the same.

Thanks for putting up with the ramblings of a "ROF." (as in Retired Old Person)

Ken Osborn

Shoreline, Wash.