Written by George Billingsley.<\/p>\n
Originally printed in the Old Kia Kima Newsletter, November 1997, Volume 3, Issue 3.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \"At the request of some of you, I will attempt to reconstruct some of the beginning phases of the re-opening of Kia Kima in the summer of 1948. As you have already noted in your newsletters, Kia Kima had been a Memphis council camp in the 1920's and 1930's and it operated up until 1941. At the start of WW2 it closed. At the urging of many ex-campers still active in Memphis Scouting, Kia Kima was then re-opened in 1948.\"<\/p>","credits":"George Billingsley","featured":1,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":null,"slug":"kamp-kia-kima-reopened--story","added":"2026-07-31 19:05:32","modified":"2026-08-07 21:28:31","owner_id":1,"use_summary_page":0,"cover_image_file_id":null},"item":{"id":952,"item_type_id":6,"collection_id":19,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2019-10-01 04:10:18","modified":"2026-07-31 19:28:11","owner_id":1}}