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These chapters were started as a sort of letter to my younger son John at his request in the Christmas holidays of 1940-41. As they grew longer, he suggested that we have them printed, to send to the other Camp Diamond families in case they cared to look over the long story for the seasons that they recalled, (somewhat after the manner of the boy "Jo" in Dickens, who said, "That's what makes readin' interestin', to find a 'J' and an '0' !") When I began to write it out legibly for the printer, in May 1941, I decided to keep it as it was, informal, spontaneous and personal, from memory, with only a glance through the old picture books and an old journal; not waiting for recourse to documents or deeds or "data" or to the "register" at Camp. Many names will come to me as soon as the story has left my hands, I am sure, names that I would have wanted to put in just as much as those that came to memory first. But it was getting too long, and you will understand that it is not a history, and makes no pretence to completeness, infallible accuracy, or spiritual interpretation. It is like an old news-reel, just a record of some of the impressions of one guest who came to the Camp in 1908,--and stayed with it. I tried to give enough reference material, in parentheses without employing footnotes, so that my children would be able to look up more information about the older people of whom they might hear elsewhere, and in whom .they might become particularly interested. And I tried especially to record the sources of some of the amusing "sayings" that have fingered in our family. One of the first things I heard Dr. Maltbie Babcock say when I was a child, was that "God is the Source of infinite humor, as well as of infinite wisdom, infinite power, and infinite love." If any reader feels that I should have written less about the surface, trifling episodes that we recall at Camp, and more about the people's real life or contribution in the outside world,-- less about their casual remarks, and more about their profound significance,-- I can only ask that reader to write the five hundred biographies, and I will hope to be the first to read them ! These are episodes, vignettes, facets, on which the light of Camp Diamond shone. They have significance for me - and I think they will have for my children. In fact, they represent the "Ceremonials of Common Days",-- (phrase from title of a book by Abbey Graham). Many of them have come to be sacraments; I wonder if it has occurred to others, as it has to me, that we have never had the "communion service" at Camp Diamond, and if they had wondered why we have not missed it more, as we would at other places. Perhaps it sometimes takes another form, in a little degree,--as it did in complete degree, for the two disciples who walked on the road to Emmaus, and when the day was far spent, "constrained" their Friend to stop with them for supper. Francis Thompson speaks of viewing the "world invisible",-- ("In No Strange Land"),--and of the "traffic o£ Jacob's ladder Pitched between Heaven and Chafing Cross, · · · · · And lo, Christ walking on the water Not of Genesareth, but Thames!" Somehow we never asked to see Him visibly, on the waters of Diamond Pond. Chapter I. First Sight, 1908 - Page 1

Introduction Chapter I. First Sight, 1908 - Page 1 Chapter II. The Early Days, 1876 - 1900 - Page 5 Chapter III. The Coming of the Missionaries, 1901 - Page 11 Chapter IV. The Years Between, 1902 - 1907 - Page 17 Chapter V. Summer Time of 1908 - Page 25 Chapter VI. Home to Our Mountains, 1909 - Page 39 Chapter VII. A Little Coleman in the Glen, 1910 - Page 43 Chapter VIII. Customs, 1910-1935 - Page 51 Chapter IX. Groups, 1911-1935 - Page 73 Chapter X. Some Exceptional Summers, 1923, 1927, 1935 - Page 101 Chapter XI. The End Crowns All, 1936 - Page 109 Chapter XII. The Sun Declines and the New Day, 1938, 1939, 1940 - Page 111