“But the strange thing, instead of being cold like snow, it was hot. “We were grabbing all of this white, which we thought was snow, and we were putting it all over our faces,” Kent says. Excited, the girls put on their bathing suits and, amid the flurries, began playing in the river.

It was as if the sun came out tremendous.”Ī few hours later, she says, white flakes began to fall from above. “It even hurt our eyes when we looked up. “We were all just shocked … and then, all of a sudden, there was this big cloud overhead, and lights in the sky,” Kent recalls. Their dance instructor rushed the girls outside, worried that a heater on the premises might have burst. Early in the morning on July 16, 1945, Kent says that she -then 13-and the other campers were jolted out of their bunk beds by what felt like an enormous explosion nearby. At night, they slept in a cabin by a river. During the day, she and nine other girls learned tap and ballet. Barbara Kent joined Carmadean’s dance camp in the desert near Ruidoso, New Mexico, in the summer of 1945.

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