03.12.10
Ten Hut! There’s never a bad time to bag on Keystone Boys State
Hurry Pennsy boys!
Keystone Boys State will be held at Shippensburg State Teachers College in June. It’s still not too late to try and throw away a week of high summer learning to be a lickspittle, cheerleader and rule-follower at a small insignificant school in PA.
Every since a couple years ago, DD’s recollection of his week at Keystone Boys State way back in the day is still the only memoir of KBS life on the web. And it stubbornly remains a thorn in the side of Keystone Boys State here.
By comparison, KBSer’s attempts to offset this generous publicity fall by the wayside.
Here’s an excerpt from my recollections of Keystone Boys State life:
One of the objections to DD’s description of Keystone Boys State (ca. the early Seventies) was its nature as a camp administered by military men. Campers were herded, minded and ordered around by active duty members of the four services for the duration of a week in the summer even though it was ostensibly under the umbrella/direction of the Pennsylvania American Legion.
But perhaps the barking of orders, inspections and compulsory afternoon intramural sport have been packed away, relics of a much earlier era. However, in the early Seventies, it was a firm and strong part of the command structure.
Here is a video some stalwart Keystone Boys Stater has put on YouTube as counterpoint.
Young Pennsy men! Can’t you just see yourself this summer standing before some fattish guy doing military-style motivational calls and responses?
Yes? Well, heavens! Why are you still reading this blog?
Learn to march and take orders. It’s all good.