NPM 2020 - Nimrod Hall

During the summer of 2018 I had the opportunity to spend a weekend at Nimrod Hall in Bath  County, Virginia. Established in 1783  as a hunting lodge, it now serves as a place for artists and writers to gather. I was even luckier to  return for  another 5 days  during the summer of 2019. On the Nimrod  Hall property are a number of abandoned cabins from Camp Nimrod, the site of summer camps for boys and girls from the 1930's to the 1980's.

Camp Nimrod Cabins, Bath County, VA

July, 2018

the signs warn trespassers

do not enter

do not approach

so the cabins are 

photographed and painted 

from afar

but I was THAT child

the one that touched wet paint

crawled under fences

climbed over locked gates

the one determined to

turn no, do not, can not 

into yes

each walk past the cabins

took me closer 

filled me with longing to

peer into the windows

tiptoe up the steps

open the rotting  door

but the responsible adult

silenced the inner child

and settled for making memories

from a distance

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2020. All rights reserved.

That's it for today. I hope you'll join me again tomorrow.