Summer Happiness

Summer Happiness

My childhood summers were filled with close family bonds, fun, joy, happiness, and laughter at King’s campground on Lake Manchaug located in Manchaug, MA. The campground had a beach with a nice soft sandy bottom, a boat landing and docks for our boats, a dance pavilion, where we had square dancing on weekend evenings, and arts and crafts during the day, tennis courts, a huge green grass field where we played baseball, football, and Frisbee, and a country store where we would buy all of our daily food supplies and tons of penny candy.



Our trailer was an old school bus that Grampy converted. He built a kitchen with cabinets, sink, stove, refrigerator and a closet. He created a kitchen table that dropped down into a full size bed and the cushions from the benches turned into a mattress for the bed. He designed a sofa that turned into a twin bed and made two bunk beds that were opposite the closet and a back bedroom that had four bunk beds with plenty storage cabinets underneath for all of our supplies for the camping season. Grammy made all the decorative pillows and beautiful curtains that were inside the camper. We also had a screened in room on our campsite, which contained a Coleman stove where we cooked most of our meals, a picnic table with checkered tablecloths, a tall white metal cabinet, and a refrigerator. I have fond memories of our family playing cards by candlelight. It was especially fun when it was raining, because I loved the sound of the rain as it hit the plastic sheeting we had covering the screens. These were awesome family times filled with a lot of good memories. A wonderful closeness was shared with family members that continues until this day and it would be great if we could all get together to spend some quality time together this summer.



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