text: Ken’s grandfather started it more than a half-century ago, when trips meant staying in a wall tent heated by a wood-burning stove. The family began going to the camp in 1985, and the trip is not something to be messed with.
  “My wife’s cousin was thinking once of getting married on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and I wished them well. I said I’d tell them good luck in advance because they wouldn’t see me there,” said Ken Wees, 45, who hasn’t missed an opening day at camp since age 12.
  What Black Friday is to shoppers, the Monday after Thanksgiving is to hunters. It’s opening day of Pennsylvania’s statewide firearms deer season, when 750,000 or so sportsmen take to the woods. It is, by far, the single busiest day of the hunting year.
  Churches, community centers and volunteer fire companies, such as those in Adamsburg in Westmoreland County and Coral Graceton in Indiana County, cater to orange-clad sportsmen early in the day, hosting hunters’ breakfasts of pancakes, sausage and bacon, potatoes, toast and coffee.