While working on camp staff is definitely about working with Scouts and putting on a great program, sometimes it is about pranks.  Any staff member for any period of time knows that pranks are a part of life at camp.  Sometimes the pranks are between program areas, sometimes between camps, sometimes between individual staff members.

This week’s From The Archives honors the Boxwell Prank.  In this photo from the summer of 1993, two Parnell Staff members (Robert Barnard and Grady Eades) have moved the car of fellow staff member Jason Walker from the Parnell parking lot down into the Parnell Dining Hall, where it waited until breakfast the next morning.

Robert Barnard and Grady Eades move a fellow staff member’s car into Parnell Dining Hall where it sat until breakfast program.

Like Camps Stahlman and Parnell, the Boat Harbor opened in 1960 as part of Boxwell.  The Boat Harbor went by a different name then; it was called “The Ski Dock.”  Unlike Stahlman (but like Parnell!), the Boat Harbor closed.  In 1976 for financial reasons, the Ski Dock was closed and was not reopened until 1995 when the previous year’s capital development campaign raised enough funds to overhaul the site.

Here is the Ski Dock in its original run.  Seated to the left is “Skip” Dow, Boat Harbor staff member. Skip is teaching Sailing Merit Badge.  The photo was taken by Chris “Kit” Eckert, who, in 1970, was the reservation’s official photographer.

Skip Dow (seated, left) during the Ski Dock’s original run. Photo by Chris “Kit” Eckert, 1970.