"Believe."

Mark Uretsky

3/1/21

Mark Uretsky here, 1961 and 1963.

It was great to get your email and hear from a fellow Dry-Kyer!

I’m glad your health is better and you can return to the important things in life, like the Camp Dry Kye website.

Thing here in Washington DC have been crazy the last few months as you might imagine, and I’m so glad that the worst of it is over, at least for now.  There were literally impromptu parades in the streets when the election was finally called for Biden.  See pic below.

Parade on Connecticut Ave.

My wife Marian and me

Two things.  First, is it possible to get access to Ben’s reading of Mose Haslem, the Willows, the Wendigo, etc.  I still remember them vividly and would love to hear them again.  (NOTE: am trying!!)

Second, I did some sleuthing.  There was another tale that scared the bejeesus out of me that Ben called the Amulet.  It was about grave robbers, remember?  Well, I found what I think is the original!  It’s called “The Hound” by H.P. Lovecraft  https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/h.aspx

Take care, and thanks for all your efforts on behalf of us alums.

All the best,

Mark

PS. Sad to read that Peter Vickery died in 2017.  I just read his obituary.  I liked him and he was one of the few boys whose last name I remembered.

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August 1, 2014 -- I searched on "Mose Haslem" and Camp Dry-Kye flooded back! I was part of the small Freeport, NY contingent with my brother Sam and Brandon Tartikoff, now sadly deceased.

I was there 1961 and 1963, for the non-eclipse. Saw Kurosawa's Seven Samurai which Ben was nuts about. Picked a can of blueberries and Betty baked me a blueberry pie. And ordered lobster for my last meal.

I was 9 years old in 1961 and 11 in 1963. Ben was such an interesting man.

From left, Brandon Tartikoff (about 13 years old), Sam Uretsky (13 years old), Ben, and Mark Uretsky (9 years old). Mark: "This was the only time all three of us went to camp together and the first time for all of us, according to the records on the Camp Dry Kye Web site."

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