Please allow me to digress from my usual theme of camp humor for this issue, but this is a story worth telling. To start with, I will list some national highlights from the year 1912: New Mexico was admitted as the 47th state. RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Democrat Woodrow [...]
Read more...The way I see it, there are two kinds of people on this big blue marble—useful people and people like me!
Read more...The Foundation Free Camps are thrilled to welcome Erik Silvius as our Outdoor Education Coordinator!
Read more...No, I’m not kidding, this is a true story! Of course, to everyone who witnessed the event, it looked like the boar just fell off the cliff, but I know the truth. . . . That pig was trying to fly!
Read more...While driving back to the Canyon from Kerrville the other day, we passed by the odoriferous carcasses of several road-kill skunks. “Whowee, what a bunch of dumb skunks,” my son, Coleman, observed. “What do you mean?” I asked. “I mean why would all these skunks be standing out in the middle of the road waiting [...]
Read more...Taken from Laity Connections, Spring 2010 Greetings from the Canyon to all friends of the Foundations for Laity Renewal. By way of introduction, my family and I live on the camp property near Leakey. My main responsibility is to direct the Free Camp Program, which was envisioned and created by the Butt family over [...]
Read more...“Who is Roland Johnson, and why is he so special?” you may ask. Well, I guess Roland Johnson’s birth isn’t such a big deal on the national scene, but he’s pretty special to me.
Read more...Can you believe summer is almost over? You know what that means? Football, hunting, cool weather, football, kids back in school, and football!
Read more...If you have ever sat on the porch of the Echo Valley Ranch House, casually sipping a cup of “joe,” and wondered how difficult it would be to climb the bluffs across the river, you can stop wondering.
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