Place your online auction bids from the item of the day email below. You can also visit the total listing here. The form has been taken down for this year’s auction. We hope you can make it out to the event Saturday! If not, plan to join us September 27, 2014 for next year’s event! Read More >
It’s beginning to look a lot like…FOLIAGE SEASON! The fall foliage season in Vermont has been described as: “The unbearably beautiful American time and place. Brilliant yellow birch-covered hills slope down to glowing green meadows. Every sugar maple along every country lane combusts in scarlet and gold. The intensity of the season so overpowers the Read More >
“It’s a good thing they hire 20 yr olds because they are the only people crazy enough to do it!” A current friend of mine and a former BBC counselor was recently referring to the job of camp counseling. It is a crazy job. At BBC counselors care for kids 23/5. Counselors are responsible for Read More >
In his blog post, Jonathan McKee explains an experiment he and his wife performed on their teenager. He writes: Our theory was basically this: Start strict, and loosen up as our kids get older, eventually freeing them from all boundaries by age 17½. Guess how it went… not bad! In fact, it allowed their daughter to Read More >
This past Sunday was a lot of fun! We hosted over 100 people here at camp for a church service and a BBQ. Five staff and one past staff spoke during the service. Here they are! Big Tuna (aka Brandon Bergey): Tuna Church @ Camp Lourene Bender: Church @ Camp: Lourene Bender Sparkles, Rex and Tex Read More >
Every week at camp there is a newspaper interest group. Campers get to interview staff, spy around camp, and write stories. These reports then get turned into articles which they type up for the newspaper that gets distributed at the end of the week. This year we decided it would be fun to share some of Read More >
Another fun week with wild wednesday interest groups dedicated just to nature. Here are the outcomes of nature art!
Pepper here! This summer I have come to camp as myself, what I mean is that I came to camp just to be a fine art illustrator (I’m heading into my senior year at art school) and share that in different ways at camp. One of those ways has been leading drawing and painting interest Read More >
This is the last post in our Excited for Camp Campaign. You can find all the posts in the campaign here. But, back to this post – some of you know Dale’s Homes in White River Junction. Dale and Darlene Snader are the owners and have made significant contributions to the camp… one of those Read More >
Greetings friends. The below blog post was written by a friend and consultant, Mark Vincent. He has been working closely with me (Tuna) on our campaign to rebuild the pavilion. This summer we are entering the “Public Phase” of this effort and so I thought I’d share it with you this “Tuna Tuesday”. ———————— Capital Read More >
