Category: Brant Lake

CAMP ONEIDA

My love of the Adirondacks and Brant Lake began as a child of seven, when I spent summers at a boy’s camp which, like many Jewish camps, bore an Indian name, Oneida. After five years at Camp Oneida, located outside the tiny western Adirondack hamlet of Woodgate, New York, the director Arthur Eckstein, Eck,…

UNDER THE LOCUST TREE

They were two old men, Felix and Arthur, and they sat in the blue Adirondack chairs under an ancient locust tree at Brant Lake Camp. Every day they sat under that tree. Usually in the morning. Once they had coached tennis at that boy’s camp. And they played. They possessed precision forehands, powerful backhands. In…