Richard Green:  

In High School I wore funny clothes. I had long hair and wore high fashion clothes. They were the latest trend from New York and Los Angeles. I wore Saturday Night Fever outfits before they were in style in Wisconsin. I also had another style of dressing, it was wearing torn blue jeans and T-shirts with psychedelic patterns. I was in the principals office almost everyday. I smoked cigarettes and so-forth. Nicolet had its smoking lounge for seniors and the front lawn during lunch; oh my! What went on out there would make us, as parents today, have a panic attack. During the summers in High School I had a job working at a summer camp owned and administered by a Millwaukee religious diocese. The camp was located in Wautoma, Wisconsin and occupied about one hundred acres of wooded land and fronted about a thousand feet of lakefront. The lake and the woods were the setting for an experience that those who were there would remember all their lives. I worked there every summer from June to August. In the backdrop was the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies. I experienced the life of an outdoorsman, participating in swimming, canoeing, sailboating, hiking, camping out under the stars. At night we sat around the campfire after eating food cooked over the flames of the fire. We would sing songs, play guitar and other musical instruments. Graduating from High School was the time for me to leave Wisconsin and explore a life really on my own for the fi...Expand for more