Kickapoo Kamp for Girls (photo by Kenn Stearns)

We have been connected to Kickapoo Kamp for decades. And so this idyllic summer camp in the Texas Hill Country is woven through our lives from childhood in Houston (see photo from ’60s below) through this summer, and future summers. My son, nephew, sister, niece, and countless friends have been ‘kampers,’ pawnees, work boys, counselors, nurses, and directors. Choctaw or Cherokee, young or old, male or female, somehow our family has been part of the Ford/Findlay family for decades.

Kickapoo Kamp in the '60s (photo by Mac Stearns)

Note: That strikingly handsome kid on the left is me holding a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder/player, the iPod of the ’60s.