Students get a touch of outdoor magic Palmyra Camp lets them get close to woods, woodchucks

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: May 29, 1997| Author: KRIS RADISH | Copyright information

There was a steady, cool, spring rain falling from the dark skies over the Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest, and Chiquita McCurry was knee deep in pond grass, muck and swimming water bugs. "This is fantastic, really fantastic," she squealed. "I just found a snail and one of those neat little black things that wiggle all over the place."

Chiquita is an 11-year-old fifth-grader at the Lee School, 921 W. Meinecke Ave., but for a few hours earlier this month she became a Palmyra ...

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