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undercurrent of tranquil sound.
And inside, photographs of the president, his wife and aides bring back a sense of what the camp was like. There were jigsaw puzzles, and horses to ride, and of course, fishing. That was the president’s passion.
Park Ranger George Hoffman, the camp’s caretaker, recalled that the newspapers of the day had great sport poking fun at the president’s fondness for the primitive camp in the Virginia mountains. One cartoon, he said, showed Mr. Hoover and British Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald sitting on a log negotiating a disarmament treaty.
At that time, the camp was known all over the world through the dispatches filed by reporters who covered the president — even in the backcountry of Madison County, Virginia.
Now, Ranger Hoffman lamented, “it’s really interesting only to the locals . . . there’s not much mention of it in the history books.”
Not much mention, except in a volume titled “Herbert Hoover’s Hideaway,” penned by author Darwin Lambert, the historian of Shenandoah National Park. It is devoted entirely to the history of Camp Hoover.
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