The Laura Mack Cabin
The Mack Cabin was built in 1962, and contains our laundry facilities and a room with two twin beds and a private 3/4 bath in Mack West, and the teen boys dorm with four sets of bunkbeds and a 3/4 bath in Mack East.
It was originally built between the old Little Boys Tent and the Big Boys Tent as a dressing room for the pre-teen and teen boys with funds given by David & Gwynne Dresser Mack and the entire Mack family, as well as many individual and group donors in honor of David Mack's mother, Mrs. Laura Mack, who was affectionately referred to by most who know her as "Mother Mack".
At that time, the boys ages 8-12 and the boys 18 through college-age were housed in big army tents that were known as the Little Boys Tent and the Big Boys Tent. So when the Mack Cabin was built between the two tents, the boys suddenly had space for dressers, hanging clothes, and other personal belongings, as well as their own bathrooms right nearby — a HUGE improvement from going all the way to both a tiny dressing room and the men's room on the second floor of the Main Building... especially in the middle of the night in the rain! The two halves of the Mack Cabin were known colloquially as Little Mack and Big Mack (this was decades before that fast food restaurant's famous burger).
The Little Boys Tent has gone the way of history (pre-teens are now housed with their parents) and its cement slab holds the camp clotheslines. The former Boys Bunkhouse, built on the site of the old Big Boys Tent in 1986 to house the teen boys, was repurposed in 2021 as The Treehouse, the Assembly's art cabin, when the boys dorm was moved into Mack East.
© Trevor 2018
© Trevor 2018