Fifty Years Ago

Fifty Years Ago

Noel Laflin

6-30-21

Fifty years ago right about now, and give or take a decade either way, Ahwahnee would have been hosting its first week of campers. Records indicate that Camp averaged around two hundred visitors a week. This would be repeated for another seven or eight weeks each summer. 

During its twenty years as an active Scout camp, that meant that somewhere around thirty thousand folks, both young and old, spent a week at Ahwahnee, not to mention hundreds of young men, along with a handful of women, serving as staff members all of those years.

That's got to account for a lot of memories.