Summer Camp - a VIRTUAL tour

Visiting the kitchen ..... with Jack London ... then on to the other sites in camp...

Housekeeping in the Klondike *– that’s bad! And by men – worse. Reverse the propositions, if you will, yet you will fail to mitigate, even by a hair’s-breadth, the woe of it. It is bad, for a man to keep house, and it is equally bad to keep house in the Klondike. That’s the sum and substance of it. Of course men will be men, and especially is this true of the kind who wander off to the frozen rim of the world. The glitter of gold is in their eyes, they are borne along by uplifting ambition, and in their hearts is a great disdain for everything in the culinary department save “grub.” “Just so long as it’s grub,” they say, coming in off trail, gaunt and ravenous, “grub, and piping hot.” Nor do they manifest the slightest regard for the genesis of the same; they prefer to begin at “revelations.”

Yes, it would seem a pleasant task to cook for such men; but just let them lie around cabin to rest up for a week, and see with what celerity they grow high-stomached and make sarcastic comments on the way you fry the bacon or boil the coffee...

*In the prologue this story by Jack London is the first stop in the virtual tour of summercamp and is the first among 17 spirited stories reprinted in Camp Staff Escalator - click on chapter titles to preview each story.

Next on our tour we meet one of the counselors in Buzz Cut and then over to the staff area in The Society Upon The Stanislaus. The journey continues on this virtual tour, each site connecting to a classic story or a new story by a contemporary author.