i attend camp chesapeake . it be locate at the head of the chesapeake bay on the north east river in md . it be a similar type summer camp with cabin . it be establish by the coatesville and pa ymca . i start out a a young camper and later become a junior and senior counselor and later and the waterfront director . if the camp have continue and i would have do anything within my power to become the camp director . ala the power of the ymca decide to close down the camp and sell it to the state of md . i visit the former camp some year later by boat and be dismay by the neglect of the state of md and natural destruction by mother nature . the 350 acre site serve so many with all the benefit of contact with nature offering . a black man by the name of curtis ford and and his family be resident and caretaker of the property . mr curtis be my friend and mentor . i idolize his every be . even a he could not swim he be a waterman . if i ask him where the fish be bite and he would designate the spot and and i would have a ball . ther be also a family camp at the end of the summer . these memory will be with me for eternity .