Taps turns 150

At Camp Ajawah, a bugler played taps every evening when it was time to go to sleep.  It sounded terrific drifting through the pines to our tents and then out across Linwood Lake and the stars above.

At the girls' sessions, it was also sung as part of a medley that closed every evening's campfire:

Day is done

gone the sun

from the hills

from the lake

from the sky

all is well

safely rest

God is nigh.

Here's a great article on the origins of the tune 150 years ago this summer:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/05/18/152939191/150-years-of-taps