All Tied Up

Sometimes you just gotta tie someone up in rope. It’s just one of those things.

While hazing is frowned up today, it probably won’t come as a surprise to most that there was a variety of pranks pulled on individuals on the camp staff. Sometimes these were things that everyone could laugh at; sometimes they really weren’t. Pranks could often be dismissed as bonding or letting off steam. Whether the prank was “okay” or not really came down to the receiving party: how did they take it?

In this example, Robert Barnard is tied up in some manilla rope in the Activity Yard Staff site at Parnell in 1993. Judging by the look on his face–and the fact he was a fourth year staff member at this point–Barnard is taking one for the team. Sometimes just laughing it off is the best way to pull folks together.

Collection of Grady Eades