A Summer Director in an Empty Autumn Camp or (Stranger in a Strangeland) or {A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court}

Sorry for the literary references in the title. In my defense, I haven't actually read either of those books.

So I'm Ben. Over the past nineteen summers I've been a Camper, Counselor, Coordinator and (currently) Summer Camp Director here at Lindley G. Cook 4-H Youth Center for Outdoor Education. 

Or, as we who know it fondly call it, "4-H Camp". 

Or for those of us who know it even better even more fondly call it, simply "Summer Camp". 

For the very first time I'm gonna be up at camp a couple days a week all year long preparing for the summer season, getting our counselor staff together, finding more campers to join us at camp, and just generally hanging out on the best little 108 acres of forest there is.

Thusly I've made this little online journal to document the off-season at camp.  It'll be a place to keep everyone updated on the happenings here at camp; what's new, what we're working on, and what's coming up next. It'll also be a place for all of us to be able to share thoughts, memories, philosophies, pictures and whatever else we need to keep the camp spirit going all year round.

In addition to myself, as we go forward we'll have some guest writers submitting entries (counselors and campers alike) on some different subjects and topics, so keep an eye out for future posts where I'll be looking for some contributors.

AND (full disclosure), I don't really have any idea how this "internet" of yours functions, so we'll be learning how this all works together as we go along.