Groups of National Guardsmen who surrounded the farm lighted campfires.
We lighted campfires and burned pretty much anything we could find: traffic cones, tires, bales of hay.
And all along the route, in the dozens of villages and towns on both sides of the frontier, the Pashtun tribes would have lighted campfires along the way to guide the horsemen as they slowly continued through the snow and on toward the old Pakistani military outpost of Parachinar.
Today, the former Prudential chairman is crouching in a sunny field near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, watching 14-year-olds learn how to light campfires without matches.
Residents in Van and Ercis lit campfires, preparing to spend the night outdoors while the Red Crescent began setting up tents in a stadium.
Soldiers scuffed the carpets, chopped up desks with their knives, lit campfires in the front yard, swung from ropes in the rotunda and used every byway and storeroom in the building as a privy.
Drawn by a sense of history in the making, crowds of Lizard locals and holidaymakers had pitched their tents and lit campfires near the floodlit dish, jamming their cars along the narrow lanes leading on to the moors.
In recent years, driven by what he believes is Instagram-fueled enthusiasm, he said he had witnessed a striking escalation in the number of people breaking the rules outdoors: leaving trash on trails, feeding woodland creatures and lighting campfires where they are forbidden.
Fire officials are advising those camping over Labor Day weekend to be cautious and aware of fire restrictions when lighting campfires.
One of my favorites is the buttery and juicy Chilean sea bass, which is dense yet moist, inviting the smoke to imbue the flesh with a light campfire fragrance.
