Director’s Reports

A Fourth of July Bargain

July 4, 2026

A Fourth of July Bargain

9 AM

Yesterday was another beauty – the last of the serious heat wave. Sara’s entire album is dedicated to water activities. Enjoy.

Here’s the deal for today: July 4 is a great on-campus event that goes non-stop until after dark when our own fireworks display is done. The first block commences at 10 am and I will snap as many pix as I can and post them as soon as I am able to break away. I will also amend this newsletter every time I return to my desk with a fresh batch of photos. I took a few at breakfast as a warm up!

11 AM

Of course the boys want their candy and today they get it. Ten dollars worth, in Kingswood currency, is the precise limit which the cashiers enforce with conviction. One lad, just now, got an item for 4 K bucks instead of 5 and you would have thought he had won the lottery. His his mind, he did, likely.

Some clever sorts were making trades, as in “two of my candies for two of yours.” Future financiers I might surmise. Jacob Dalton always puts out some absurd item for the full $10 asking price. He may have had a taker for that blue vanilla frosting.

Another boy tried to hide a purchase from my lens. “My mother doesn’t like me eating this …” “It’s all yours today, fella” was my rejoinder.

I spent some quality time over at the Ameriflare (Ameriflair?) station where a team of Kingswood professional painters were taking requests. Juan was very proud of the perfect Spanish flag drawn on his back. There were many really good renderings and I can predict that Sara’s pix, coming much later on, will be terrific.

On the stage, Spanky and Swampy were offering karaoke tunes for the boys to perform. Some of the acts were hilarious and the camp movie-makers were on hand to record the live acts. My favorite was the batch of seniors who attempted to sing the Albanian national anthem. Nice tune, but they did not know any of the words!

I just heard the announcement for World Cup soccer players to report to the special pitch just outside my window here. Keep tuned for a couple more Right Now entries as the day wears on. Check my photos, too. Almost entirely unedited, they tell the story quite satisfactorily.