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August 8 2025
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 write this (a bl...
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August 7 2025
This is, of course, Banquet Day. Everyone (campers and counselors alike) is giddy with excitement and anticipation for the big event. But first, we ha...
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August 6 2025
What a glorious day! Partly sunny skies, almost no chance of rain, a perfect 74 degrees, and we are having another Great Day. Our last full day of cla...
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August 5 2025
Bad weather is not unusual, so we treat it as normal at camp. Campers and counselors alike accept changing weather with good-spirited interest. About ...
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August 4 2025
The campers won a prize at EP last night: a special breakfast treat! Dress in costumes (if you want), have chocolate milk, and DJ the music for that m...
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August 3 2025
We started our day with Stumblers and almost everyone showed up for our running club. This is a club my father started many years ago, copying the Tod...
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August 2 2025
The mission of Greystone in 1920 was brief and easy to remember: For the glory of God and we have added only four words since that time: To delight an...
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August 1 2025
August Camp is jam-packed with iconic camp moments. It is just barely long enough to provide all the things girls dream about for a perfect camp exper...
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July 31 2025
Picture this: Evening Program is ending. The EmCees are wrapping up their “mermaid” presentation when they surprisingly declare that they have to go, ...
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July 30 2025
Parents sometimes want us to change their daughter’s class schedule… and we encourage them to make those suggestions directly to their daughter. We ar...
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July 29 2025
Our first day of classes is now fully underway, and we have already accomplished many big things. Yesterday afternoon the girls made their schedule (w...
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June 28 2025
It is possible (likely?) that most of your friends do not understand summer camp. It isn’t a “popular” thing to do, and many people don’t have persona...
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July 27 2025
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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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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