Hosted Weekend: Halloween with Ray Lustig

When the chill returns to the air, when the wizened leaves, now taunting us in their new technicolored disguises, rustle in the bristly grey winds like voices whispering from places unknown, it’s time to venture back to the ghoul-haunted woodlands of Nawakwa to convene with those gone before us.

Young and old carving jack-o-lanterns will help us ward off evil spirits, while the smells of spiced pies in the great ovens will entice friendly souls living and beyond. Warm autumnal cooking will soothe the troubled bellies of even the most forlorn wanderers of the darkening forests and crags. The mighty hearth will howl with its grimace of flames as we huddle round it to share hair-raising tales of encounters with the unexplainable.

For Saturday, bring extra pumpkins if you wish (we’ll have several to share), costumes very much invited, amulets, incantations, ouija board, stories of your own. Spirit hour begins at 5:30pm, and we join at the table at 6:30. The recitations will then begin. For those who survive the night, there will be a hearty breakfast. We will then pack provisions for a treacherous four-mile (round—rip) journey out to the spot known to be haunted by the ghost of outlaw Claudius Smith.

Snacks, happy hour, dinner, breakfast, trail lunch. Delicious, wholesome, healthy, varied menu. Please let us know if you have any strict food restrictions. And please reserve by the Thursday night prior, to avoid a curse that can afflict late reservers.

NOTE that the official camp season will have ended, and that means the running water will have been shut off, so we’ll use well water, pumped by the children. Bring hearty children.

Please reserve by email, text, or phone with:Ray Lustig (host)

Raylustig@gmail.com

917-903-9097