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JIM ROE MUSEUM PLANNING | BIG ISLAND NATURE PARK CONCEPT PLAN | APRIL 15, 2021 11 <br />Theme 4: <br />A PLACE FOR VETERANS <br />Potential Stories— <br />Camp Life. Like many early Minnesota resorts, campers ate their meals and socialized <br />not in their cabins, but at an inviting central lodge. <br />Point Charming. One step up from tent camping, these rudimentary cabins were <br />simply a place to sleep protected from the mosquitos. Their setting, perched high above <br />the water, was the real reward of a week at the Veterans Camp. <br />The place sort of grows on a person <br />The food is served cafeteria style in the mess hall three <br />times a day. A big ship’s bell calls the guests at mealtime. <br />Since this is a Veterans Camp, breakfast is served at the <br />unholy hour of 7:30 in the MORNING. So we always miss <br />that meal of course. . . . In the evenings after swimming <br />and supper, we sit around the lodge and either play cards, <br />sit and talk with some of the interesting people staying <br />there, or read one of the hundreds of books available. <br />Ursula Kozak, Camper, September, 1965 <br />When the Veterans Camp kids came <br />We used to be there a lot with the veterans’ kids. . . . <br />We had lots of friends. I used to go into business with a <br />couple of them and go catch frogs for the fishermen and <br />dig worms. A lot of these old veterans, they liked to fish <br />and in those days they used frogs for bass fishing. <br />Paul Nelson, Big Island resident, 1920s – 1930s