You might remember a storm from this past winter named Grayson that caused quite a bit of concern. I live in South Carolina, so we weren’t really affected by it like they were up north. To be honest, I doubt I would have even paid much mind to all of the attention it was getting on the news. Except this wasn’t just any ole winter storm – it was a BOMB CYCLONE! I guess naming winter storms a la hurricanes wasn’t sensational enough, so we’ve got to come up with attention-grabbing terms like BOMB CYCLONES! Next thing you know, we’ll have SHARKNADOS!

A friend of mine and I were chatting during that time about the upcoming bomb cyclone. We both agreed that it would be an awesome name for a band. And a thrash metal one at that! So what does all of this have to do with the title of this blog post? Nothing really except I think Death Spiral would also be great thrash metal band name. Continue reading

Camp WaBak’s Opening

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In my first post about Camp WaBak’s beginnings, I highlighted how WaBak came to be with one exception – how did it get its name?

In May of 1948, Clyde Brooks sold ten acres to the Greenville Girl Scout council which included a five room lodge and an outdoor cooking shed. What had his family called the lodge before he sold it? Why, WaBak of course! Because it was “way back” in the woods. I’m not sure why it was abbreviated that way, but we’ll go with it. I haven’t seen documentation as to when the lodge was built, but I did find evidence of the WaBak name prior to the camp. Before Facebook status updates, newspapers way back in the day (see what I did there? 😀 ) published gossip – I mean – society news. I guess people submitted their comings and goings to the newspaper, like the Brooks did to let everyone know that Miss Mary Lee Mies visited them back in May of 1936: Continue reading