I went to the Hill Country in 1975 to do what my editor called a “service piece” for Texas Monthly on summer camps. I went armed with curiosity and no camp experience other than a couple of two-week sessions spent at Girl Scouts camp in Mena, Arkansas. Besides having to clean three-holer latrines, all I remember from those weeks was the singing. One old camp song crept into my head last night: The Lord said to Noah, There’s gonna be a floody, floody The Lord said to Noah, There’s gonna be a floody, floody Get your children [clap] Out of the muddy, muddy Children of the Lord.I spent that week in 1975 visiting the camps that cluster along the beautiful but capricious Guadalupe River. I…
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