Tales of summer camp life as told by Jim Gibbons
Posted in 2000, 2001, Interviews on May 27th, 2014
Yep. I haven’t updated this blog in almost three years… My apologies! But more on that later! Now, let me present, the long overdue and final installment of the interview with my brother… Dan Gibbons! [Check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them!] Speaking of Green Cabins, let’s talk a bit about […]
Posted in 1995, 1999, Interviews on Jun 30th, 2011
In the midst of our running email chain of camp reminiscence, Dan decided to loop in David (for a reason he’ll explain below) not knowing I’d already been interviewing his former cabinmate. It seemed only logical to do a post where the interviews overlapped a bit. There’s not a whole lot of back-and-forth, but man, […]
Posted in 1997, 2000, 2001, Interviews on Jun 28th, 2011
A long time ago, I promised that this blog would feature interviews. Today, I post my first. I recently started an email dialogue with my brother Dan about camp. We hit on a number of topics. Dan’s 20 months younger than I am and we both went to camp at Shewahmegon for seven years. Dan […]
Posted in 1995 on Jul 13th, 2010
This picture is from Dan and my first year at camp: 1995. I’d be 11-years-old here and Dan would have been 9 or 10. The photo features my cousin Ryan and my cousin Tim. (Who are cousins to each other as well, not brothers.) Ryan, Tim, Dan and I were all second generation campers at […]
Posted in Letters from Jim on Aug 26th, 2009
Ok, let’s just get it out of the way… It’s been a long time since I’ve updated Nothing More American. I’m sorry. But let’s face it, you can’t force nostalgia or the memories and stories that go along with it. A semi-recent conversation with an old camp buddy about the dilemma of modern technology at […]