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Meet the 2025 Group Leaders
We’ve been introducing you to our full-summer staff, Junior Camp staff, and nurses all spring long, and today we finally get to brag on our 2025 Group...
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August 9 2024
If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. C.S. Lewis, The Horse And His Boy I assume not many ...
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August 8, 2024
It’s not yet raining and doesn’t look like it will be until some mid-afternoon showers. It will be a wet afternoon, but not a big rain storm like we e...
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August 7 2024
What a glorious day! Partly sunny skies, almost no chance of rain, perfect 84 degree high temperature, and we are enjoying another Great Day. Our last...
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RAIN PLAN
Bad weather (Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, Tornadoes) is not unusual at camp. About 20 years ago, a tropical depression brought a deluge of rain on Ope...
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August 5 2024
Why do we not allow older girls at shorter sessions? This is a reasonable question and will be on your mind when you contemplate a return to camp next...
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August 4 2024
We started our day with a morning run, almost everyone showing up for Stumblers (our running club). This is a club my father started many years ago, c...
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August 3 2024
I didn’t sleep well last night… a side effect of my torn rotator cuff injury last month. Medical update: it feels much better, but still wakes me up s...
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August 2 2024
We’ve gotten a few calls about how to register for next summer. An understandable question because on our website, all of next year’s sessions indicat...
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August 1 2024
Lives are touched in a very powerful way at camp, a fact that would come as no surprise to Dr. Sevier (who chose to start a girl’s camp and retire fro...
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July 31 2024
When was the last time you received a handwritten letter in the mail? Have you ever gotten one from a 16-year-old? Handwritten letters are increasingl...
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July 30 2024
Imagine this: the bugle has just blown and you are a camper running to your first “whole camp” assembly in the FORT. There is a crack of thunder, then...
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July 29 2024
Summer camps are not understood by most people. It isn’t a “popular” thing to do and most don’t even know about them. Their only contact is through mo...
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July 27 2024
Who’s Excited About Monday? ME!!! August Campers love me, and I love them. This is not a braggy comment, just a statement of fact. I am liked by the c...
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How Closing Day Works
With camp right around the corner, we know Opening Day is on many of your minds. We have a great video from a few years ago to show you how the Openin...
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Almost Perfect
This is always an odd blog to write, for not many people read it. If you are one of the few that do, you are a kindred spirit. You love camp, just lik...
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Thursday August 10
Our banquet day began with a thunderstorm. This was unusual (not the fact that we had a thunderstorm, but this was actually the first time we experien...
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Wednesday, August 9
The sun is shining brightly, the humidity is low, the temperature is perfect, and we are enjoying another Great Day. Our last full day of classes is g...
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Happy Campers
August is a month when many families choose to tour camp. They are often completely new to Greystone and want to check it out in person. They always n...
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Why Age Limit Camp?
Occasionally a blog is helpful in answering a common question. One of the big ones we get from August parents is why we do not allow older girls at sh...
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Spiritual Growth
Next week you will be struck by how much your camper has grown. This fact has been a comment parents have made for a hundred years, and we think it is...
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Breakfast Club
Some of you might wonder about Breakfast Club. I feature it in the the Blog but haven’t really explained its purpose. It plays an important part in ou...
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Thursday, August 3
RAIN! Liquid Sunshine! We love it when it rains at camp! Campers and counselors alike get very excited when it rains (a fact which might surprise you…...
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Wednesday, August 2
There is a lot going on at camp and things you can do to make it better. If this is your first year at Greystone you might want to read up on some det...
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Confidence
Anxiety is a big concern in our world and with our children. The simple lessons of camp build confidence and with confidece anxiety fades away. There ...
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A Glimpse of Greystone
This is your window into what is happening every day at Greystone. Some of you are naturally interested in these details (someone invented the phrase ...
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What to Expect on Monday
We can’t wait to FINALLY welcome you to camp on Monday! Many of you have never been to camp before and wonder what it is going to be like… you are sup...
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New This Year! Parent Meet-Up on Opening Day
Would you like to meet other Greystone parents on Opening Day? Or, are you an Alum who would be interested in reconnecting with your Greystone friends...
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Meet Our 2023 Group Leaders
We’ve been introducing you to our full-summer staff, Junior Camp staff, and nurses all spring long, and today we finally get to brag on our 2023 Group...
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