I have a theory about what’s really going on in #TopGunMaverick. It’s full of #spoilers so reader please beware. If you’ve already seen the film and you feel the need, click through and read this thread. The theory can be summed up easily enough: Maverick is dead and what we’re seeing is some sort of purgatory or last vision before death. But, how can that be? It’s simple. Maverick did not survive the hypersonic test flight crash.

William James Eastty, the 5th child of immigrants, was born in Boston, MA on #OTD in 1918 while the city was in the midst of a horrendous pandemic. A year later, he was adopted by a small town family in Swanzey, NH and his destiny was set. A #WWII #Veterans thread. He was baptized in 1919 and given a name that would eventually be entered onto #WWII military monuments in New England and the Philippines: 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭. By all accounts, he was a wonderful boy who smiled a wide grin every time a camera appeared.

An alumnus of @ymca @camptakodah recently acquired one of our original "vitrified china" mugs on @eBay. This simple find took me down a path to learning something new about our 105 year old camp. A brief history detectives thread. cc @yarchives When he got the mug, he shared photos of it with me, including the production date stamp on the bottom. I assumed that meant "June, 1931" but I wasn't sure. If it was correct, that meant that @camptakodah was using branded china ~10 years earlier than we previously were aware of.

Believe it or not, the Batman is real. Well, it’s more like a man who was the Bat. This character was beloved by those who knew him. While the story of Robert Douglas Lancey starts in the woods of NH, #OTD in 1944 it takes a dark turn in the unlikeliest of places. A #WWII thread. On July 20th, 1941, Robert donned a crazy costume at @camptakodah. He looked like a cartoon bat. His job was to surprise the campers and have them chase him. But, no one could catch Robert no matter how hard they tried. He was too fast, too good, and too clever to be caught.

#OTD in 1944, our nation lost a hero and a family lost a father. But I guarantee you don’t know his story. And yet, his name has echoed around the world. From the sunny fields of New Hampshire to the frigid cold waters of Anzio Bay and back again. A #WWII veterans thread. This story starts with a family that settled down on a farm in Peterborough, NH in 1923. Leonard Abbott “Spike” Merrill, Jr. attended the local public schools and worked with his father after hours. He was an enterprising young man that once you met him, you never forgot him.