title: Picking Up Where We Left Off: My Bear Spring Camps Stories
author: Mr. Joseph M. Kockelmans
description: Joseph M. Kockelmans lives in Central Pennsylvania. This is his first published book. He previously wrote a play, Kimberly, which had a staged reading by performers at the Cresson Lake Playhouse Theatre. He started going to Bear Spring Camps in 1970 when he was five years old and still attends the camp every year during the first week in August.
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  Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear
  
  
  [PART
  I.](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos6678)
  
  
    
    
  [INTRODUCTION.](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos6794)  
    
  [CHAPTER I. WE LEAVE
  ONTARIO.](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos11067)  
    
  [CHAPTER II. INCIDENTS AT
  BATTLEFORD](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos13772)  
    
  [CHAPTER III. ON TO OUR
  HOME.](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos17215)  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. AT
  HOME.](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos21470)  
    
  [CHAPTER V. WOOD AND PLAIN
  INDIANS.](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos26067)  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. THE
  MASSACRE.](Two%20Months%20in%20the%20Camp%20of%20Big%20B_split_002.html#filepos28518)  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. WITH THE
  INDIANS.](Two%20Months%20in%2