Campfire Cowboy

Nothing like a good ol' campfire to get the stories flowing

Cowboy is your host at Campfire Park, and the inventor of the "campfire reboot." Why a campfire reboot? For one, it solved a problem. Everybody was staring at their phones and nobody was coming out to the campfire talks at Campfire Park. Cowboy gets it: Campfire Park is remote, You have to drive through a stream, there's a puzzling fork in the road, the list goes on. But that doesn't mean the campfire tradition doesn't carry on. That's when Cowboy had the bright idea to drop a campfire kit of logs and kindling to peoples driveways at dusk, just like they do with the newspaper in the morning. After thinking it over more around the campfire, Cowboy had the idea of delivering the campfire talks directly by phone. And thus was born the "campfire reboot." The great thing about the reboot, it's just not Cowboy. He has a whole team of hosts, or sometimes its just him, or other times a stranger stops by.

Original Gate

A short history of water management

Cowboy

There was a time when the water just flowed …

Unfettered, free and without a thought.

A parable of a water manager, at night, with regrets

And then we built the original gate. And one more after that, and then another and another until there were too many to count. Granted, nothing is more complicated than water management. But let’s also face the facts: We brought it on ourselves.

And now the question: Can we still fix it to get it right? Or is it too late. In this short video, a confident water manager wavers with a moment of doubt, and a confession, in the middle of the night. The good news: The Cowboy at the Campfire was waiting.

WAIT A MINUTE!!! WHATS GOING ON HERE!!!

— Buck Buckner

You’ve got Mailbag

Cowboy answers fan mail

Bob, Cowboy

It’s a well known cliché …

That you shouldn’t reinvent the wheel.

Cowboy answers fan mail

But why not? What if a square wheel is better? In this modern day world that everything is turned on its head, there’s really no telling. Same goes with the campfire. Lots of people are going around and saying, “hey, the campfire is fine.” But if that’s the case, why are so many of our “in person” campfire talks not drawing big crowds, or really any people at all? Hint: It has nothing to do with the quality of our talks (in our opinion). That’s where Campfire Park’s very own Cowboy at the Campfire steps in to answer Suzy from Toledo’s letter about that the campfire reboot at Campfire Park is all about. Think “square wheel” only better.

When I write a song, I pick up with whatever I'm thinking about and go with it.

— Bobby Angel

Campfire Cowboy

Bob

Here at Campfire Park, the campfire is always crackling and visitors are always welcome

WAIT A MINUTE!!! WHATS GOING ON HERE!!!

— Buck Buckner

Stranger at the campfire

Cowboy

What’s the number one rule …

of the campfire?

Strangers are welcome, and most stranger’s soon become friends. Or that’s how it aughta be. Sometimes they’re just passing through. Good to have a spot for them ready even if they’re moving on.