Time flies, and it has been four months of weekly Secret Valley CCC camp tales. I hope everyone has enjoyed. There are a few scheduled in November since they are related to Veteran’s and Thanksgiving Days.

Fast, forward. The author of the balladeer above ditty is not known. However, we do know this. It was written by a CCC enrollee who was in Co. 1246, the first occupant of Camp Secret Valley, but his name no one could recall. The composer while in the rec. hall would play his guitar and. sing the melody and the entire company would sing the refrain—usually loud enough to scare away all of the rattlesnakes and coyotes.

Tim