RESTING WATERS: With the official closing of Camp Resting Waters — the Girl Scout camp in Kane — happening this week, we’d asked about our readers’ memories of the camp

Maxine Knapp of Port Allegany writes that her granddaughter took a very memorable camping trip there.

Maxine writes, “Last night, Sunday 3-26-17, my granddaughter, Hannah, had just returned from Girl Scout Camp in Kane. I was aware of her attendance there and asked her if she had a good time.

“‘Oh, yes,’ she said and quickly added, ‘For the last time.’

“Her father had shared the upcoming closure of Camp Resting Waters with me, but I asked her what she meant.

“‘The camp is going to close. We were the last group to be able to go.’

“‘That is so sad,’ I said.

“My mind took me back to the old Eldred Township school and days long gone when I, too, had the benefit of the Girl Scout program.

“‘How many girls had been there?’ she was asked.

“‘Forty,’ was her reply.

“I told her that I was pleased that she had a chance to go camp.

“Then she continued, ‘We all walked around the whole camp. We were crying because we could never go there again. It was so sad.’

“She was hugged very tight.

“This morning, 3-27-17, my Bradford Era’s Round the Square carried an article about the closure of Camp Resting Waters. My granddaughter’s last experience there will be vivid as she recalls her history in the Girl Scouts Program many years from now.”

The camp will now be put up for sale, but it remains to be seen how the land will be used in the future. Perhaps it will be an attraction where the community will still be able to see the land.

For instance, the Eldred Township School that Maxine mentioned is now the site of the Olde Schoolhouse Village Shoppes, which uses the school building as a place where local artisans and vendors can sell their wares.