The boys at Catawba participated in traditional summer camp activities&mdash;ball games (on a sloping field), swimming (in a spring-fed pond and later in a modern pool), horseback riding (at stables in Blowing Rock), and hiking throughout the 3000 acres Cone Estate (now the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park) which bordered the camp, and across Grandfather Mountain.[[Image:Vera Lachmann tells Homer.jpg