Color teams and friendly cool team rivalries are a long-held tradition at Camp Alleghany. Our intern blogs about the origins and the ins and outs of it all.
Blue-Gray competition 2015
From Gold Rush to Encore and more here’s a round up of some favorite Blue-Gray competition games and the tale of just how fierce they are!
Looking a lot like Christmas
With Christmas just a few weeks away I often hear camp families and friends ask about getting camp gear as Christmas presents. Some wonder if camp gear makes a good present, or if it doesn’t make sense so far from the camp season? Or they want to get camp things but wonder, What to get? […]
Blue/Gray in 2014
It’s another season of friendly color rivalry as Blue–Gray competition remains strong at Ghany! But as always we’re keeping it fresh. We’ve implemented a few new things this year that have re-sparked the interest and energy surrounding our Blue-Gray events. The guidance of mentors One of the most notable changes is that we have a […]
August 1928 Rattler: Poets, don’t you know it!
One of the super fun things about perusing our old Rattler archives is finding just how creative campers were over the years. It’s also so interesting — and fun — to unearth information about the culture of their times. I got a big hoot out of reading the August 17, 1928 edition because of two […]
August 1928 Rattler: Poets, don't you know it!
One of the super fun things about perusing our old Rattler archives is finding just how creative campers were over the years. It’s also so interesting — and fun — to unearth information about the culture of their times. I got a big hoot out of reading the August 17, 1928 edition because of two […]
Excitement of the countdown to camp
As I sit in my desk in the auditorium of our school, fiddling with a guitar pick I found in my pocket, my mind wanders. Having just finished my final exam, summer is really here. And in my mind, summer means one thing – camp. For the past two weeks or so it’s all I’ve […]
Blue-gray cookouts
This summer, as we celebrated 90 summers of traditions at Alleghany, we decided to start a new tradition: Blue and Gray Team Cookouts on the last Sunday of the summer. Well, it’s sort of an old tradition revised. Back when each session was four weeks long, and the majority of the campers stayed for eight […]
The leap frog generation
Given the many traditions at Camp Alleghany, there must be a name for women like me. But how would I know, since I didn’t go to Camp Alleghany? That’s precisely my point. I didn’t go to Camp Alleghany but I’ve wanted to ever since I was about twelve years old. Memory lane I remember finding […]