snipe hunts

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:48 AM -0700 9/21/10, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Sep 21, 2010, at 5:29 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>  At 9/21/2010 07:19 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
>>>  I knew about snipe hunts before I knew about snipe--and actually
>>>  thought that snipe were mythical beasts! I was quite surprised to find
>>>  otherwise.
>>>
>>>  Barbara
>>>
>>>  Barbara Need
>>>  Ithaca
>>
>>  My summer camp of snipe-hunters was not too far away -- near
>>  Cooperstown.  Was there a local prominence?
>
>coming very late to this discussion, but my relevant summer camp
>experience (late '40s, early '50s) in southeastern Pennsylvania also
>included tales of snipe hunts (and sending new boys out to find a
>skyhook or a left-handed monkey wrench).

The skyhook I could have located, although not at summer camp.  I was
at UCLA in the late 60s, and was even a classmate once (African
History) of Kareem Abdul Jabbar (still Lew Alcindor at the time).
Snipes would have been more of a challenge, but in the late 60s, I
might not have noticed...

LH

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