The pictures are from the 4th of July field games at Camp Dennen in 1986. It seems like this year many people have been remembering the good times that we had for many summers at Camp Dennen. July 4th brings out most of those because we did all the old fashioned field games and then in the afternoon water games and then the chicken BBQ. You would think in modern times that these old things would lose their appeal, but right up until the camp closed the games on the 4th were as popular as ever. One year we managed to be there with our grandkids when I was no longer the manager. They loved it too. My picture was in the paper a few times in my life. I think the first was on the front page of the New Bedford Standard Times for winning the blueberry pie eating contest and you knew immediately by looking at the picture. i might have been eleven at the time. That picnic was only for newspaper boys.
People seem to avoid the old fashioned and simple things of the past, and yet when they get involved in them they have a great time. I hear from all kinds of young adults how much they wish they could share those experiences with their children. I'm not talking about all calm well behaved people. It didn't seem to matter when they were involved in those simple things. They all miss it.
Perhaps all this modern entertainment just distracts us from what is really good for us and healthy and enjoyable. I think we get hooked on tension and action. Perhaps we have exceeded what God intended for us. Perhaps the simple and natural are really better than all these electronic improvements. It doesn't seem to me that it makes people happier, and it definitely has not made society better. Come to think of it I don't miss the good old days, just the good old ways.
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