Camp Fairmarsh Weekly newspaper clipping, dated August 5, 1943

More About the Missing Pendant

Just last week, we reported that Balmy’s pendant was missing. We regret to report that it still hasn’t turned up.

Balmy mentioned to us that the pendant was something she’d found at Camp Fairmarsh, so our intrepid reporters did a little digging into the newspaper’s archives. It turns out that the pendant was originally found at Camp Fairmarsh in 1886, just a few years after the camp opened. There’s no record of where it came from, but some of the early articles may give a hint as to its origin.

It seems that prior to the founding of the camp, this land was farmed by a group of Italian immigrants for about a decade after the Civil War. One of the...

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