30 years ago...

I was on the phone today with a dad who was interested in sending his daughter to camp for the first time.  While talking with him about availability and such, he mentioned that he had been a Kanata camper himself 30 years ago, and we ended up having a great conversation about his time at camp and how he is looking forward to sending his daughter for her first time. Right before I started talking to him, I was flipping through old newspapers looking at articles and pictures of years past at Kanata, and it was so great to have a piece of our past find us.  It is amazing the connection that comes from camp--this man was a camper almost 10 years before I was even born, but simply because of the fact that we both had Kanata in common, we were able to share stories--him about our past, and me about our present.  

In the course of our conversation, he mentioned that he actually was holding some pictures from the first time he went to camp--him standing in front of Cabin 13, getting ready for his first week at camp.  After hanging up the phone, I started thinking about what a great thing it is that this dad had such a good experience at Kanata 30 years ago, that, regardless of the fact that he lives several states away now, and hasn't been back to the area recently, he wants his daughter to have her first camp experience at Kanata.  I hope that 30 years from now, she'll be calling the camp office to find out about sending her child for their first summer!