Camp Timeline

I realized recently that I was beginning to forget at which camp sessions certain events happened, so I decided to start a list. Please add you own experiences and memories (or correct my misrememberings! ;-)

• I think this is a cool idea Noam
• Ditto, tritto, quadrutto.

Pre Camp 1996

• Grace writes the TLH and Real Lives
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Camp 1996

• NBTSC begins!
• Jared climbs up on the lunch table in the lodge on day and proclaims himself "Satan, Lord Of The Underworld!"
• Jared wears duct-taped together old converse to camp, which look like they are about to fall apart dispite the duct tape.
• In a tragic page in NBTSC history, the bus drivers deside to stop at Mcdonalds on the way back to Eugene from Camp.
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Between Camp 1996 and Camp 1997

• One Day After Camp: The nbtsc IRC server was set up.
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Camp 1997

• Jared reveals that he also goes by the name of "Fidel Castro" on occasion.
• Jared arives at camp in the same pair of converse as the year before.
• TAM is created.
• A camper who's name will not be mentioned tries on the hat she's half done making as a tube-top, and has an imbarrasing time trying to take it off again...
• Summer tells the pixi stix story for the first time
• Several male staffers dress up in fabulous women's clothing, including Billy Wimsatt in a tight velvet dress.
• Denise and Summer cheat on the way to the beach and hitchhike with some mildly drunk dune riders in an SUV, who take them on a short dune jumpin' trip before dropping them off at the beach.
• Billy and Corale engage eachother in cartwheel competitions on the beach
• Cob oven built.
• On the second to last night, Jarred, girl-Ben, Sarah Cory and Samantha start chasing each other around and eventually start biting each other. Hence, the Great Hicky Tradition was born.
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Between Camp 1997 and Camp 1998

• East Coast Weekend, Epworth, Fall 97:
• A group tries to play Capture the flag, except using humans as flags, but the flags, lead by jake and solon, deside they're allowed to escape on their own after being captured, throwing the game into total chaos. However, dispite no one really knowing what was happening, what the rules were, or even what game they were playing, they kept playing, and thus it became what may be the first recorded game of authentic Calvin Ball at a Unschooler Gathering.
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Session 1, 1998

• Taija throws two lighters into the campfire at Honeyman, which is forever remembered by anyone who was there.
• On the bus trip from Honeyman to Myrtlewood, someone has to go to the bathroom in a very fortuitous place, and everyone gets to pick blackberries for half an hour.
• Samantha makes a point of giving the entirety of Camp hickies (and almost succeeds).
• Jake and Zack try to surprise everyone by showing up at a camp dance in drag, unfortunately someone missinforms them of when it's beggining, and they blow the surprise and hour before the dance starts.
• And hour later half the male population of camp arives at the dance in drag, and there are reports that there is no clothing left in one of the girls cabins.
• Apparently every photo ever taken of Zack in his 6 sessions of camp, get taken in the 20 minutes that he actually keeps the slinky red dress on.
• Kyla has a strawbale house workshop and they build a cool circular house/fort thing.
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Between Sessions, 1998

• TheStoryOfZackJakeAndASafeway Occurs
• Zack, Jake, Forest, Selena, Jennyrose, and Kate, saw Tori Amos in concert in portland the night before Session 2.
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Session 2, 1998

• 'The NBTSC Blues' song is performed
• The song 'I Love Not Back to School Camp' is written and performed by Jess (From Hawaii) and Nate G
• Michae first performs 'Kid Packing for Camp' skit
• The game "mafia" is introdused to NBTSC by Zack and Jeremy. Unfortunately it doesn't take off as much as it should have.
• The corrupt version of the "yogi bear" song is also introdused to camp by Zack and Jeremy, it however does catch on. (crazy fucking unitarians, corrupting our children...) ;P
• The Tubby Rummers are formed, after several people begin to mimic Jeremy's odd habit of idley Tubbing his Rummy.
• Michae declares himself Mayor of Camp.
• Camp is held at Murtlewood for the whole week for the first time. (yay! no camping!)
• Lice "Epidemic" proves to have infested only about 5 people, and is defeated, but not before causing mass hysteria.
• Jake Shaves His Head, due to lice.
• Zack Steadfastly refuses to shave his head, and instead spends the next month and a half killing lice.

Between Camp 1998 and Camp 1999

• some things happened between some campers, that we will not be talking about
• Summer and Corale attend an Ani Difranco concert and continually expect Cory and/or Evan to show up despite all odds, and run into Jennyrose instead.
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Session 1, 1999

• Lost Valley
• Good chanting workshops
• Singing under the stars on the basketball court
• An Unbiased Reporter publishes a report uncovering large scale cover-ups and scandle involving the Mayorship of Mishae, and he is impeached. The CampElectionsOf99 are called.
• Percy the Platypus introduced
• Michae moons us.
• Exciting truth or dare games are played on the basketball courts at Lost Valley.
• The orgin of the G E-minor song.
• The first major NBTSC rules violation occurs (well, the first well-known one anyway) and various changes insue.
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Between Sessions 1999

• Zack, Becca, Rick, Stuart, and Becca Invade Robyn and Fuzz Head's house.
• Zack tells the "Twice!" joke about 20 times.
• Zack compiles his "Lust Chart" full of things he really shouldn't have known.
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Session 2, 1999

• Tug-O-War Battles Between "Grandpa's Bitches", "Jesus and his Homies" and "The People who do Stuff" advisee groups: "Grandpa's Bitches" win.
• Samantha continues to give hickeys to as many people as are willing - at first with great reluctance when coerced by Clay, and then with growing enthusiasm as the week progresses.
• Davin starts the campaign to save the Little Baby Silver Ducks.
• First Calvinball workshop.
• First power shuffle jappens. It changes some people.
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Between Camp 1999 and Camp 2000

• May 2000: Zack holds the first anual "Testosterone Overload Week," having campers Justin and Stuart over for a week to thuroughly enjoy being obnoxious guys. Sadly, Morgasm the Bold fails to ride a lawn mower across the country to join them.
• 2000: Summer enjoys floods of people at her house during various times, including Samara in January, Adrian in Febuary, and Cory and Corale and Courtney in July... Various Austinites decide to go to camp in 2000 as a result of said meetings.
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Session 1, 2000

• At Monro park, The Squirls and Vodka Joke apears, and ever sence then, no one has gotten it.
• Wrestling Matches take place between advisee groups. Norm's group wins.
• False Pride's first NBTSC performance takes place
• Peer Advisors introduced
• Brilliant "End Of NBTSC Ceremony" and Performance done by Camp Staff on last night of camp before closing and hug circles
• Marina writes camp anthem late one night in Dogwood, with help from random people sitting around
• Norm organizes an expedition to the pizza parlour on the beach trip.
• Norm and his wife come to the Prom in drag
• Hug Buttons introduced to NBTSC by Becky! Hurrah!
• Curi starts "Kiss me, I'm Cute" masking tape signs which are found on many campers' backs. Later inspires a poem by Reanna
• Fiona, Candra, and Lydia put the masking tape signs on a bunch of guys without them knowing it, and proceed to put lots of lipstick on and kiss every one of them.
• (the first?) Tea and Sex talk
• Samantha first recieves title Hickey Goddess.
• Joe Moons us, becuase Mishae is not able to be staff at NBTSC in 2000 (reson unknowen, romers of grace not likeing the mooning in '99 go around)
• Fairy Godpeople are introduced to camp.
• Rick, Justin, Nick, and Chris B. make an entrance at the session they "aren't" at, stay for the evening, and run away giggling.
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Between Sessions 2000

• some things happened between some campers, that we will not be talking about.
• Lots of people generally try to recover from session 1 in a hurry.
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Session 2, 2000

• Too many people get horribly sick. Including Grace. Yuckness.
• As a result of horrible sickness, Grace misses closing circle for the first time ever. Taber 'holds down the fort' admirably.
• Marina comes to the Prom in a towel!
• Psycho Bitches are formed by Mitch the Knuteboy.
• Cob oven gets a bench and is re-decorated.
• Samantha realizes that this was the last year she would be legally able to give hickeys, and so goes to it with the gusto and vigor of a dying man - but subtley! Oh, and so seductively... or so she would like to imagine...
• Orgy.
• Danopian decides to see how the Prom is going and proceeds to acidentally win the Most Casual award.
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Between Camp 2000 and Camp 2001

• some things happened between some campers, that we will not be talking about (wiped cream?)
• Theory...soap operas ensue.
• Lotus's second annual Halloween party. & guess what? Soap operas ensue!
• Marina has an awesome, very large party, which convinces not a few people that they must go to camp. Soap operas happen.
• also a very bizarre merging of worlds
• Selena and Forrest host a whole fuckload of people to work at their family's Christmas tree farm for a few months. Soap operas, soap operas everywhere.
• Adrian and Jonah host a New Year's party, at which the whole damn thing was a GIANT soap opera. Ack! Ack! The tormented feelings! The amorous embraces! The tearful goodbyes!
• roya decides she needs to be on the Camp TimeLine somewhere
• Ruth has a party in Colorado for her birthday
• Becky, Emma, Kathleen, Kim B, and Marina get married, although none of them can quite remember when. It must have been pretty darn late at night...
• Becky has an awesome party. Big nasty soap operas happen, which seem to not have been very noticable to everyone around. Everyone lives happily ever after.
• Ruth has a party mostly camping in Colorado, just because.
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Camp 2001 Session 1

• A bunch of online friends meet for the first time, perhaps in the greatest concentration ever. Weirdness and fun ensues.[2]
• The first NBTSC Poetry Slam is a huge success.
• mohoaks where given.
• no one was set on fire...
• Mini Ted was born http://www.nbtsc.org/neal/nbtsc-2001-photos/teds2.jpg
• totally rad power shuffle
• four lovely girls preformed the time warp in the talent show
• george streaked the prom (goddess safe us)
• The leftovers preformed in the talent show
• A Rehabilitated Redtailed Hawk, [3] was released back into the wild at Camp Myrtlewood on the Ocean Trip day.
• Roya and Samantha brushed eachother's teeth with they're feet, at the talent show (Now That's a talent!)
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Between Sessions 2001

• Several campers attend a wedding held at Camp Myrtlewood and enjoy chicken and cookies and things at the reception!

• Neal, for the first time in his life failed to process the CakeOffer() function properly. (that is to say he didn't accept a peice wedding cake)

• excuse me!?!? but who did what? and why did no one invite me along???

Session Two 2001

• Marina starts a project to make 1000 paper cranes and reaches success on the last night of camp. 667 of those were folded on the last full day, after the news about the terroism.
• The country comes to a standstill, and people go around singing "it's the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine"
• Marina shows up to prom in footed pajamas
• Carrie shaves her head on the first evening (in the guy's bathroom, no less, and there were more girls in there than boys.)
• The lodge is re-opened and several waylaid souls attempt sleep without varying levels of success
• Campers turn into lepers, more or less
• Camera breakage reaches epidemic porportions"
• The talent shows are the most amazing that we've seen yet. Thank you everyone!
• Kathleen shows up at prom in a short, red, velvet, spaghetti strap dress and has way too much fun flirting with everyone and generally shocking people.
• Five Dan's attend camp, get renamed Jebus, Rufus, Harry and Vicky by innocent beach-goers, and have chores together much to everyone's amusment.
• A conspiracy is started by "THE S.H.I.T." They go around making signs and generally confusing people, and make a "Logistical Goddess" throne for Maya. "The Smiling Happy Intelligent Teenagers" turn out to be Tilke's Advisee group.
• The first session in NBTSC History where Grace didn't lead an advisee group.
• Gert. (Heathers stapler for stapling boys balls to the floorboards) came to camp. we love you Gert!
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Between Camp 2001 and Camp 2002

• Theory/Ashes happens at Susan Creek campsite, and miraculously, everyone gets fed and the forest doesn't burn down. (Pretty fireballs... oo...)
• Morgan, Heather and others chase nutkins (chipmunks) around with upraised arms, large pinecones, Dan D's little sword [4] and various other things with frighteneing and strange expressions, saying stuff like "Nuuutkins. Come here, nutkins." and "Mmmmm, dinner." We won't even talk about what else Morgan had instore for the cute little critters...
• Lotus has another Halloween Party. It is, of course, a success, but less people attend than originally planned. (you slackers who weren't there....)
• Heather became lots of people's honnerary sister

"I Can't Quite Remember When..."

• When did Another Place burn down?
• 1997, I believe
• When did Grace originally publish the TLH?
• It was in 1991
• Anybody kept track of dates? it would be cool to have the dates of each session of camp, and the east coast gatherings and such.
• Okay, I should be the one to remember this, but which year did Samantha flip me over her back? zack

 *Second Session '99. /After/ I tore my hamstring on the dancefloor, thank
you very much! /-Samantha/

• When was the hay-stack-fort-thing built? The oven?
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[1]Are we missing a link here somewhere?

[2]weirdness? us? NEVER!

[3]Fresh outta Betty Ford!

[4] It has a name! the Critter Poker! or the Letter Opener. heh

Some days you just dont ask.......