Memories of Christmas in July at camp have Casey musing on the joys of the holiday.
A Counselor Raises Her Voice For Camp!
Are you the next Taylor Swift? Or maybe you just love singing even if you never plan to go to Nashville. Either way, come to camp and sing your heart out!
Department Series: Alleghany Singers at Camp Alleghany
This fun, revived and revitalized activity is something to sing about! Read Program Director Taylor Fellows’s blog post about it and think about taking singing this summer!
A favorite activity
We’re recording our original Camp Alleghany songs and adding them to the Website.
Music of the past
After my recent blog post on Songfest at camp I learned some new things about how music was done over the years at Camp Alleghany. Of course things were not always as stressful as the old Songfest had become. Music has always been a gentle, unifying, touching aspect of our shared life here at camp. […]
Sing, sing a song
It’s one of my biggest goals to bring back the singing at Alleghany. Yes, we sing a lot, but many — too many — of the traditional songs have been lost by the wayside. For some reason or another, certain Campfire or Assembly songs are sung less and less each year to the point where […]
Sing your heart out: All about the Alleghany Singers
One of the activities that campers can choose is our singing program, the Alleghany Singers. This is a fairly newer activity we offer, though way back in the day (50s and 60s) there were the Alleghany Serenaders. About ten years ago or so we created this activity, at first called Choir but then changed to […]
Top 5 from the Summer of 2013
It’s that time of year again when, sadly, camp is over but, happily, we can reflect fondly on the summer that was. That means it’s also time for my top five favorite things about Ghany 2013! 1. Ghany’s next generation We were blessed to have lots of little ones at camp this summer. Laura Deitz […]