Tan and tired, yet happy, were the group of 18 boys who returned to Rich Square Monday night about 8 o’clock after a week’s outing on the beach at Colerain. This trip has become an annual affair with the Rich Square boys and an occasion that is considered by them both pleasurable and profitable, for camping life on the beach means not only swimming, boating, fishing, and other sports, but also planning meals, preparing meals, cooking, cleaning up, etc., all of which is necessary to maintain a well balanced citizen, through a man.
Setting up camp was of course the first real work for the boys after their arrival at Colerain, but even this was so great a novelty that it seemed play rather than work. So also was preparing and serving meals. For this the company was divided into groups of three, and it was very interesting to look on and to hear them talk of how they should serve a better meal than the other groups. A typical breakfast was composed the following items: fried ham or breakfast bacon, eggs,--scrambled, turned, or straight up according to order,--French fried potatoes, bread and jelly sandwiches, coffee, Tecco pancakes with maple syrup. A typical dinner,--the 5 o’clock kind,--was composed of boiled ham, fried chicken, butter beans, tomato sandwiches with dressing, French fried potatoes, bread and butter, coffee, cake and pineapple salad,--a very tempting array we are sure the most experienced housewife will admit.
And our stay on the beach was made more pleasant by the kindnesses shown us by Mr. W.S. Nixon, proprietor of the Colerain Fishery and Canning Co. Mr. Nixon seems to believe in the Rich Square boys and on their arrival at his place of business, he turned over to them his 12 passenger motor boat with instructions to use it all they wished during their stay in his community. Another item worthy of mention and which gave considerable pleasure to the boys was the delicious dinner served them at 6 o’clock on Sunday evening by Mrs. R.H. Stanford and Mrs. T.H. Peele, who spent the afternoon on the beach.
The names of those who went in the party are: Talmage Brown, Walter Tyler, Richard Peele, Walter Conner, James Tanner, William Johnson, Ralph Stanford, John Ruffin Baugham, Garland Grizzard, Alex Stanford, George Holloman, Wilson Shoulars, James Leake, Cloid Wade, Robert Weaver, William Leake, and Everett Hunter. Supt. Geo. W. Bradshaw and Mr. E.C. Jernigan, teacher of vocational agriculture in our school, were with the boys and enjoyed the outing as much as them.
From The Roanoke-Chowan Times, Rich Square, N.C., Aug. 25, 1921
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