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Romance is another matter. A love of Camp Green River is integral to lovers’ love. Almost every couple he knew, Senehi writes of the camp owner, Tiger Morrison met at camp, worked together at camp, or got together through some camp connection.

Morrison breaks up with his stylish companion, Liz, because of her disdain for the commonness of camp. Liz wants him to turn over the camp to Sammy, his daughter by his late wife, who died in a car crash with a drunken driver.

Sammy lives and breathes the camp. She practically grew up learning to look for and recognize anything that grew or crawled around on the forest floor. Over the past 24 years she’d hiked every trail on their three thousand acres a hundred times.

When Sammy goes on a hike to Ruby Falls with Patrick, a smitten camp counselor, they talk about one of Patrick’s charges, Tucker, a math prodigy with a nature deficit disorder.

Are you familiar with the Fibonacci ratios? Patrick asks Sammy. yes, she had read about it in the Da Vinci Code. the ratios show up in pine cones, flower petals and other natural patterns, and Patrick figures he can teach it to Tucker and try to draw him into connecting his number fetish to nature.

That’s the third element in the book: connecting children to an ethic that goes back to the Cherokee, from whom Morrison’s ancestors got the land, and to Ernest Thompson Seton, the Scots founder of the League of Woodcraft Indians.

It’s an ethic that this region can boast.

The year 2010, Senehi writes in her acknowledgements, marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of summer youth camps in the Hendersonville/Brevard area, which contains the highest concentration of camps in the United States.

Rob Neufeld writes the weekly book feature for the Sunday Citizen-Times. He is the author and editor of four books, and the host of the Web site the Read on WNC at http://TheReadonWNC.ning.com. He can be reached at RNeufeld@charter.net and 505-1973.

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Anybody else got it?

Right now I’m floating on air, after a rough few months I finally got a break, after 11am today I’m guna be watching my lil one crawl all over the house, getting into mischief and generally bringing the house to life 11 can’t come quick enough

then tonight I’m going out celebrating my best mates promotion at work and also remembering a friend who passed away a few years back in a car crash, he always said the best way to remember someone is there good times not tge bad so every year we all meet in the same pub he took his last drink in, we put his fav tunes on the jukebox ( massive thin lizzy, van Morrison fan) and we share stories of his crazy antics when out, he was a right ladies man could charm the pants of a virgin so each guy takes it in turn to approach a woman and use one of patricks fav lines! Having tiernan makes me appreciate life so much more and how precious it really is I’m lucky to have tiernan and that’s something il never take for granted! Wasn’t for going out but mum can’t wait to get rid of me so she can play the doting granny lol

so folks what’s the plans for the weekend?

Does anyone else do anything different to remember those who have been taken too soon?

That Friday feeling – Board67

By Soraya Roberts
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, February 18th 2010, 7:25 PM

Many fans would have liked to read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind when he read that he died.

Reports Thursday that the Canadian folk singer, 71, died while on a North American tour have proved to be premature.

A Twitter blogging service reportedly posted the prank message that Lightfoot had died and news services soon followed suit.

But Toronto news station CP24 put the hoax to rest by calling the singer, whose famous hits include “If you could Read my Mind” and “Bitter Green.”

“Everything is good,” Lightfoot told the news station. “I don’t know where it come from, it seems like a bit of a hoax. I was quite surprised to hear it myself… I feel fine.”

The singer-songwriter is currently on a 26-city tour, his first since suffering a minor stroke on stage in 2006. Fans have been shocked by Lightfoot’s recent skinny appearance since he was hospitalized for an abdominal aneurysm in 2002.

Other recent victims of celebrity death hoaxes have included Johnny Depp, who was said to have died in a car crash in France, and 15-year-old singing sensation Justin Bieber.

Both stars turned out to be fine.

With News Wire Services

Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer, victim of death hoax; Songwriter is alive and well