Happy camper: Free State grad camps in 50 states

When her daughter was just 7 weeks old, Kathi Firns-Hubert and her husband, Barney, fastened the newborn into her car seat and took her camping. Though she wouldn’t remember her first camping trip (to the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield), ...

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