Camp Nebagamon

The truth is that the brilliant people who established the schedule for the last week of camp knew just how to do it.  During these last few days, we are taken on journeys of hilarity, reflection, camaraderie, melancholy, and jubilance.  The camp experience in a nutshell. It all began last night, we were visited by…

I realize that much of my focus in these updates is, as it should be, on the kids’ experience here at camp.  I realize that for the most part, the readership of these updates is simply desperate to get some sense of what their child’s experience at camp is like given the typical quality of…

It used to be that I would say that the most powerful moment of any summer was the Keylog ceremony during the final Council Fire of the summer. Who could possibly argue that the power of heartfelt and tear laden words, shared by a camper on his last night as a camper, are not the…

Every once in a while you just have to let it all hang out and have one of those BLOWOUT days.  A day unlike any other at camp that stands out as truly unique. While many of the best memories from a summer are created during routine days, these special days really serve to punctuate…

As most of you know, parent visits here are not really a big thing. While we don’t discourage it (except for first-year campers), I guess the challenge of getting to Lake Nebagamon keeps the numbers of parents who make the trek up to the North Woods pretty small.  This year, when it is all said…

Without a doubt, anyone who has ever spent a summer at Nebagamon would tell you that there is nothing like a Sunday at camp. Sundays here have their own special feel to them. Whether it is the late wake up (well, late wake up for anyone outside the Swamper Village… Swampers wake up early no…

Because Camp Nebagamon has a nearly 100-year history, its alumni base is a HUGE one comprised of folks with a very wide range of careers. When you combine this fact with the tremendous loyalty that our alums have always shown (and their unbounded desire to get back up to camp to visit!), you wind up…

Greetings from Camp! Yesterday was our first Cruiser Day of the second session. As you may know, Cruiser Day is the one day each week when we completely trash our predictable daily schedule, a schedule that we have worked hard to institute so that the boys have a sense of structure and normalcy in what…

If you have been following the weather reports over the past few days… (ok….admit it, as much as you pretend to be living your own life there, one of the first things you do in the morning is check the Lake Nebagamon weather report!  It’s ok… rest assured that your children are CONSTANTLY asking me…

Greetings from camp,  One of my absolute favorite aspects of this place is the diversity of interests that our kids hold, and the ability of our staff to be creative and cater to these.  This amazing variance was on full display last night during our Special Interest evening activity.  Special Interest is a program in…