Leave it to Pete Mandell and Joe Larson. "The House of Seven Doors." yet more Camp Clark lore.

The Lawrence Pond screensaver image shows the Camp Beach in the foreground, and across the Pond is a white house. Did Pete tell you about the "House of Seven Doors"?

It was a story that Pete manufactured to tell his campers. It describes a person who is trapped in a house, and the only way out is to open a series of doors into separate rooms - each occupied by some person or animal, or something else that was horrible, that had to be subdued before the next door could be opened. As I recall, he told the story of each door and room over a series of seven nights. This allowed him to tell the whole story before any of the campers went home. To put a little pizzazz into the story, on the seventh night, he would reveal that the white house across the pond was the "House of Seven Doors''. When we took campers on a seven-mile overnight hike to the ocean Sand Dunes, we had to use the road that passed the House of Seven Doors. Sometimes we told the campers to "step lively" until we had passed the house. Naturally, the campers would beg him to tell the story again. 

Editors note: I'll bet there is a pretty good chance that the seven occupants are still there during the months the camp is occupied.

"The White House with the Seven Doors"