10/22/2026
Camp was two weeks away. The cook had just withdrawn. And the camp’s young chair had one idea left: he called his mother.
In June 1965, 60-year-old Maggie Turner had never cooked for a crowd, but she stepped into the Camp OAC kitchen “for one summer.” She became “Cookie,” an unofficial Camp Mother to a whole hillside of kids, and she kept coming back for nearly a decade. She called them the happiest years of her life.
Nearly 60 years later, her family is still feeding Camp OAC. Read the full story 👉 campoac.com [link to article on website]
