The setting for the camp could not have been better, high in the hills above the tree line, on the side of a 10-acre lake completely isolated from the world on over 500 acres of property belonging to the Order of Brothers Disciplinarian.
The purpose was to instill in the campers there the virtue of study and obedience to the rules as determined by the Brothers. I suppose they could have been Monks or Friars, but they preferred the designation of Brothers. They wore ankle length habits belted at the waist and sandals; their only other article of clothing was a brief pair of under shorts. The habit could be shed to the waist down leaving the wearer bare-chested. The campers were all teenage boys divided by age into group's ages 13 thru 18. All had at sometime in the previous school year shown a tendency to cross the path of authority to the point were stern measures were demanded.
There were two three week sessions each summer, the youths all arrived together on the same transport and left the same way. There are six dormitories one for each age group, each dorm had ten sleeping rooms that accommodated two boys each they were five each side of a central corridor. Showers and toilet facilities were at one end; the other end had a larger room for the two Brothers that were assigned to it and across the corridor from that was another room for the sole purpose of punishment. Inside that room was very little, a small version of a vaulting horse with straps at the lower end of each leg on a set of hooks along one wall were hung several leather wrapped canes each had a larger handle with a wrist loop and tapered to almost nothing from approximately a half inch in diameter. They were all the same each was designed to impart breath robbing sting, leave an almost scarlet stripe but was all gone in less than two days. The only other furnishings were a couple of clothes hooks on another wall and two upright chairs. The only other buildings were the dining hall and some tool sheds
Rick Wade and Travis Wilson were on one of the buses that were delivering the campers for the second session of the summer of 1946. They were both 18 and had been sent to the camp because their behavior at school both study and citizenship wise left a tremendous lot to be desired. The buses arrived at the camp and everyone got off and stood in a group, awaiting them were the Brothers two for each age group and the senior Brother who was a sort of Headmaster. The boys were segregated as to age and the 18 year olds numbered only 14 members. The two Brothers that had that group formed them into two lines of seven then introduced themselves.
" I am Brother Joshua, and this is Brother Jacob," said the taller of the two.
"You will address us as Brother, and will do exactly as we ask. There is only one form of punishment; it is administered at 9:00 a. m. daily in your dorms. It will be publicly demonstrated shortly thereafter it is given privately."
"Now you were told not to bring any personal items other than the clothes you are wearing, you will be issued camp clothing for your stay, so please strip completely, now".
Rick looked at Travis to see what he was doing Travis was watching as another group started to undress, suddenly Brother Joshua was right in Rick's face, "strip NOW!!!" he screamed. Rick had never got out of his clothes that fast before. In a matter of two minutes there were 14 totally naked youths. Rick glanced around and saw that the other age groups were in the same state or very near it.
"Now follow me" and Brother Jacob trotted off toward the dormitory buildings, Travis nudged Rick and pointed, 14 youthful penises were rising and falling in flaccid unison as the boys jogged along. Rick smiled but had a premonition that that would be about the last amusing thing they saw for their stay.
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