Kent Busman – Summer Camp for Families

Kent Busman: Story-teller and Camp Fowler Director
By Kate Chamberlin

Lyons, NY – TrailWorks of Wayne County, Inc. held an open house in the Lyons Community Center to celebrate the people and good works they have been doing. One of the presenters was Kent Busman.
Along with being the Director of Camp Fowler, he is an animated story-teller. Scuttle-butt has it that when he was in college, he and a friend needed tuition money, so during the summer they hired on as salmon boat fishermen in Alaska. They made enough money for tuition, but not enough to pay their way back to school. They started wending their way home, paying their way by telling stories.
Busman, a wiry young man with a reddish head of hair and full beard, who looks more like a woodsman than a Reformed Church Minister, told several environmental tales such as why we have one day and one night, Animules, and a phenomenal recitation of Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax”.
Busman’s vocal dramatization and physical actions really brought the audience into his tales. Most impressive were his “behind the truths” of camp life, such as why all the camps now use aluminum canoes, why campers should wear hats, and why a particular animal is now extinct. This, of course, segwayed beautifully into “The Lorax”.
Busman is the Director of Camp Fowler, which, according to the website, Camp Fowler/Retreat Center is a Christian Summer Camp whose mission is to: glorify God; foster growth in Jesus Christ as Lord; experience life in a Christian community and encourage people to live as disciples of Christ.
Contact information: Camp Fowler, Synod of Albany 1790 Grand Blvd Schenectady, NY 12309 phone: (518)374-4573 fax: (518)374-4996 email: kbusman@rca.org. website: www.campfowler.org; Kent Busman, storyteller, camp director.