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3ATHENA’S TALES FROM HISTORY
At the dark end of the day
Our work’s put away
And we all sit there
By the teacher’s old chair
For storytime
—John Kitching
The storytelling starts sometime in the middle of the camp period. After the classes for the day are over, and the day itself comes to an end, it will be time for all the young camp goers to gather in a huddle. A huddle, I agree, that would be so unnatural outside the camp, but here the young ones cope with contradictions rather well. They are rapt and hear in hushed silence the story of the past as told by the camp seers. Indeed, a story of epical proportions of their quest for freedom. Athena1, the ancient owl, raconteur par excellence, may not tell all these in the correct sequence, you know how old people sometimes ramble, ev
