Camp Grisdale Kid

A Memory of Grisdale.

I lived and went to school in Camp Grisdale. My grandma and grandpa Selby lived cross the street from us, my aunt Donna and uncle Auto lived 3 houses up from us, and my uncle Dan and aunt Gloria lived by the school. My dad's name was Frank Hayes, he and my mom Mary raised four kids (my sisters Martha and Debbie, and my brother Frankie). I loved it there and miss it alot; the freedom and the fun we had as kids was great. Most of the kids there were related to me. Uncle Dan and aunt Gloria had four boys and aunt Donna and uncle Auto, had five kids with us four Hayes kids. That's a lot of kids that live and went to school together. The school was a two room school house; 1-4 in one room and 5-8 in the other room. Sunday school was on Thursdays in the evening. We watched movies in the rec hall and roller skated there, Christmas plays there and holiday parties were all at the rec hall. It snowed every Christmas and my dad played Santa a few times there. We moved to Shelton just before it was gone. The day we moved I was crying holding on to the door, begging not to leave. I learned how to ride motorcycles by my cousin Danny there. We climbed trees. I just loved it there, everyone was family and all the kids call my grandma 'grandma'. Summer time fires we took our bathes and stood outside to dry our hair it was so hot at night when we had fires there. There is so much to tell, just can't write it all but it was great, wish I could have raised my kids there.

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