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nature building was a nature museum located in the river end of the old
dining hall in 1931.
From the thirties through the late sixties the Nature program at camp was centered around the “Nature Lodge”, a large log cabin located in between Peary campsite and the terrarium. The building had a high peaked roof and an attic area over the front porch which provided storage space for a lot of training material, and sometimes for Order of the Arrow props as well. It was used as the Nature Lodge until 1967 when the Nature Area was moved to Cadigan Lodge. During the 1970 season it was used for Nature & Conservation displays. Perhaps used as a classroom and museum when first constructed, the cabin later became sleeping quarters for the nature director and his staff of one or two, even though a persistently leaking roof made us protect our beds with ponchos to keep them dry. The gable ends, made of smaller irregularly shaped logs, let insects and bats enter at will, so in the sixties a SeaBee crew covered those areas with tongue and groove log siding. In the early seventies it was used as the in camp headquarters for the Order of the Arrow. It was removed in 1975 when rotting logs made it unsafe. |
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Dean B. Zaharis Created: October 31, 2010 Last Update: February 20, 2012 Send comments to: FriendsOfHinds@gmail.com |