Kelly Daniels/SDN Former Mayor Dan Camp looks forward to retiring “to quiet history in the garden” at his Cotton District home.

By KELLY DANIELS
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Former Mayor Dan Camp does not mince words about his future plans now that he’s left City Hall.
“I’m going to retire to a quiet history in the garden,” Camp said on his first morning retired from his position as mayor.
Standing in the courtyard of his Holtsinger Street home, he listened to a wren sound her mating call, watched a blackbird fly over his running fountain and into a tropical shrub, held his arms out and said, “Would you leave all this?”
Happy to re-ignite the intensity with which he developed his mini-paradise prior to his first mayoral bid, Camp has already settled into his favorite place in Starkville, the Cotton District. And his favorite place in the district is a bamboo sofa on his porch, where he sat Wednesday relaxing.