The 1960's saw the arrival of the Beatles, the promise and tragedies of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy, the Civil Rights Act, LBJ, the moon landing on July 20, 1969 and the landing of a half million at Woodstock a few weeks later just down the road from Ma-Ho-Ge.

By the time we got to Woodstock - or by the time Woodstock got to    Ma-Ho-Ge on Aug. 15, 1969, the 60's were nearing an end. But Bethel was put on the international map and Ma-Ho-Ge played a role by helping to feed some of the half a million strong who came through Laymon Road and Happy Avenue on their way to the festival. (Had they known that owner Burt Leventhal was a caterer, they might have raided our kitchen). And while all this was happening, back at camp, Grey Armada was defeating Blue Atlantis.

1960 Sophomore Boys (courtesy of Jay Himmelstein)

Bunk 9 Girls, 1962

1965 Senior Boys

1964 Sophomore Girls (photo courtesy of Zina (Linksman) Hassel

Bunk 3 Boys, 1960

1965 Junior Girls (photo courtesy of Zina (Linksman) Hassel

Leslie Michaels (Schaefer), 1968, at Ma-Ho-Ge and the force behind the 1987 camp reunion. (Waiting for ID on cute dog)

Signed pillowcase given to Leslie Michaels

Bunk 4, 1960

Ma-Ho-Ge riding ring, 1964. (photo courtesy of Mark Pennell)

1963 Senior Boys - Mike Zackman, a future counselor and Color War general, is fifth from left in the front row. Also in the front row: Marc Gass is first at left;  Middle Row: David Silberhartz is 4th from right; Steve "Hoot" Harris is 6th from right; Neil Cumsky is 7th from right. 

A page from 1968 Color War book (courtesy of Steve Leventhal)   

1969, Bunk 2: top row, l-r: counselor ?, Erik Kruger, David Shelsky, Matt Eisenberg, Anita the campmother, Jeff Sunshine, Arthur Lavitt, Les Harris (son of Roz Harris), counselor Jeff Jarrow. Front: Todd Ringler, Rich Klein and Craig Litt.

Boys HC, home of Milt and Carol Sirota, and the Subbie bunks as seen in 1964 (photo courtesy of Mark Pennell)

                        Girls tennis in 1964 (photo courtesy of Mark Pennell)

Color Wars during the 1960s

1962   Blue Astronauts and Grey Musketeers

1963    Blue Arabians and Grey Cossacks

1964    Blue Vagabonds and Grey Knights

1965    Blue Gondaliers and Grey Samurai

1966    Blue Sorcerers and Grey Jesters

1967    Blue Satans and Grey Warlords

1968     Blue Athenians and Grey Spartans

1969    Grey Armada defeated Blue Atlantis

    At around this time I met Phyllis Kronenberg, who I then thought was the love of my life. To my eye she was an American Indian beauty, exotic with gleaming black hair, full lips and an aquiline nose. I'd first seen her at Camp Ma-Ho-Ge, in White Lake, New York; her father was the resident physician there, and I'd attended in the summers from eight to eighteen years old (with the exception of my seventeenth summer). "  ---Defense attorney Bruce Cutler, writing in his book, Closing Argument, Page 35. Note: Bruce Cutler, whose first year at Ma-Ho-Ge was around 1956, was the oldest of the Brooklyn-based Cutler siblings. His sister, Phyllis Cutler (Oliphant), and brother, Richard, also spent many summers at Ma-Ho-Ge during the 1960's and 1970's.