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How to win at tug of war
Victor Mather of the New York Times proposed 10 Olympic events that should be resurrected for the upcoming London games, including tug of war. Tug of war was an annual competition at Yawgoog, the Boy...
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When I was a boy, I spent much of my summer at a Camp Yawgoog, a Boy Scout camp in Rockville, Rhode Island. My troop would spend a week at camp, and then I would spend another 2-7 weeks at a campsite...
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My boyhood adventure land
One of my favorite moments of this past summer was the chance to visit Yawgoog Scout Reservation with an old friend and former Boy Scout. I spent many of my summers at Yawgoog as a boy, and they were...
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A place where time (and boys) stand still
I visited my former Boy Scout camp, Yawgoog Scout Reservation, last week with two friends from childhood who love the place as much as me. Danny and I visited camp together last year, and a few years...
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The boys at the Big Swim Meet had no idea how fleeting boyhood is. Once gone,...
This bit of newspaper was printed circa 1930. It describes the “Big Swimming Meet” at Yawgoog Scout Reservation, the same place where I would spend my summers half a century later. As a boy, I also...
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“Where do you get your ideas?” is an understandable but impossible-to-answer...
I’m often asked where I get my ideas for books, which is an understandable but impossible question to answer. There is no well of ideas. There is no secret formula. There is no one answer to that...
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