Fourteen Mini Camp counselors gathered recently for a weekend reunion & planning retreat. Arriving Friday by plane, train and automobile, twelve women descended on my family’s vacation home in southern Maryland, joined by two more who drove down from Alexandria for the day Saturday. Responsibility for meals and snacks was expertly organized by our most efficient […]
Happy hour reunion
I was fortunate enough to spend ten years at Camp Alleghany, from 1991-1999 and then a return in 2003 for my last summer, which was my third season on staff. Though it’s been over ten years since I left I can rarely think of a week in my life that an influence from Camp Alleghany wasn’t […]
Coming home – with a family in tow
I made my husband mark his calendar last year. “In 2014, we are going to Camp Alleghany,” I said with determination. Our daughter would not yet be two years old, but I knew I wasn’t the first to make the trek with a toddler. “I thought no boys were allowed,” my husband, Mike, said. “During […]
A gift of presence, place, and time
We can’t remember whose idea it was, in the beginning, to celebrate Mom’s milestone birthday with a multi-generation reunion at Camp Alleghany’s Family Camp. It just immediately seemed so obvious to us. But, wait: bring an 80-year-old to a place with no air conditioning, an uphill hike to meals, and shared bathroom facilities? What about […]
Perpetuating a legacy
How often do you think about Camp Alleghany? What brings back the memories for you? Is it running into a fellow alumna somewhere you didn’t expect to see her? Finding a copy of your Songbook in your storage room? Or is it just the sights, sounds and smells of summer that evoke that excitement and […]
Ghany we will give
As your girls start to get ready for camp, here’s another idea to share with them about what going to camp is all about. It’s a letter that’s being sent out in early May called Ghany We Will Give. I guess it started with a conversation among some alums during Family Camp last summer one […]
An internship to bring history to life
Being homeschooled this year gives me the unique chance to both study and have a flexible schedule. And it allows me to do things that I wouldn’t necessarily have an opportunity for in regular school. So my parents and I decided that it would be interesting to find some internship opportunities during the school year […]
Because of camp
Now that I’m back at home and I’m reflecting on my four-year experience at Camp Alleghany, I just keep thinking about how this was my last summer as a camper. I’ll never again return to Ghany as a camper proper, even if I am camping when I come. I won’t take classes, live under a […]
Hopping at ‘Ghany
I’ve held several ‘Ghany jobs over the years (most recently Changeover Queen) and loved them all. But in a very close contest, Hopping wins as my all-time favorite job at camp. Hopping comes with the obvious advantage of getting to be a camper in the non-hopping hours, but that’s actually pretty far down the list […]
Hopping at 'Ghany
I’ve held several ‘Ghany jobs over the years (most recently Changeover Queen) and loved them all. But in a very close contest, Hopping wins as my all-time favorite job at camp. Hopping comes with the obvious advantage of getting to be a camper in the non-hopping hours, but that’s actually pretty far down the list […]
