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recreation area, dining room, and kitchen made use of the farmhouse, with the cooks staying in the small“ Pee Wee” cabin just across the road. Food was prepared with vegetables from the camp garden. It is reported that $ 2,000 worth of groceries were purchased from local sources each summer to feed the hungry campers. Boys and girls of Hilltop Camp walked to a nearby swimming hole on Salt Creek in the hot afternoons before the park lodge had a swimming pool.
After her marriage to Thomas J. Weaver in 1935, Kate Andrews wintered in Chicago, returning to Brown County to administer the camp. Illness and age compelled her to withdraw her involvement with the camp and it was permanently closed in 1947.
Eventually the buildings with the surrounding property were sold for private residences.
One of the cabin’ s current residents, Kara Barnard, channels the spirit of creativity, strength, and
talent that inspired the Hilltop Camp and Summer School for Girls a century ago. She is a musician and artist, sharing her music magic as a performer and teacher. She also collects and generously shared the historical tidbits contained in this story. •
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