Then some more stories about WWII and celebration of the end

Then some more stories about WWII and celebration of the end

This time the location is around the Hemlocks and Monterey, Tennessee.

It seems Camp Monterey, a girl’s camp, had the campers ride their ponies over to the Hemlocks to camp out at the Point, and even swim down at the pond below the main cottages. This routine had gone on for years.  The distance between the Camp and the Hemlocks was a mile or so. The time was the summer of 1945.

Well, having been born in 1948, this is all I have learned in the last ten years or so.

Girls would lie to their Moms even then about coming here, even when the Mom said it was too dangerous to go to Roaring Falls (an 84 foot waterfall) , for example. I got this story from an old lady in her early 70’s, and she was about 15 at the time she was last there. So she just “fibbed” to her Mom about where she had been that day.

And when the Camp found out that the girls were skinny dipping in the pond, well that caused a big broo ha ha at the Camp, too.

And one story a gal shared when I stayed with her in Decatur. It had to do with when she went to Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. Well she taught me how girls would beat the “check out” system Agnes Scott had at the time, and so she could leave for the weekend more freely.

So when the Japanese surrendered and thus ended WWII, a bunch of girls happened to be camping out here at the Hemlocks.

So some Camp leaders saddled their horses, rode over here, collected the campers, and led them back to Camp Monterey.

There they had a “big” celebration over the end of the war.