Camping Out Boney Pile Style

[Byrnesville, Summer 1959]

It was more of a real camp out this way; the other times were in the backyard with blanket tents held together with clothespins on a rope between a fence post and a tree. Backyard camping wasn't real because of the easy security of being able to walk right into the house during any time of the night. Here though, way up the hill on the flat top of the boney dump, was real camping. 

We borrowed flashlights and batteries, filled a canteen full of grape soda or orange pop, packed cookies, and a deck of cards. We had an old black iron fry pan and a big pot. We dragged a comfortable log over and placed it for sitting by the fire. We used our pocket knives to cut and sharpen long thin branches from trees for roasting marsh mellows and hotdogs over the fire.