Only a week to go until Thanksgiving, and we are still basking in such a feeling of THANKFULNESS over here at camp as we look back at last summer and ...
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Games To Play Over the Holidays
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A Letter to Dr. Sevier
Dear Joe, I was so surprised to get your letter last week… the stamp was AMAZING (was that solid gold??? Looked like it). The impact of getting such a...
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The Ultimate Cabin Reunion Planning Guide
For so many Greystone girls, Christmastime is cabin reunion season! Whether you’re going down the street or across the country, time with camp friends...
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Camper Blog: Senior Year was Worth the Wait
“So you’re a counselor now, right?” This was my favorite question to be asked this summer. After I told someone that I was going to a girl’s camp for ...
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To Our 2020 New Campers
If this is your very first summer at Greystone, welcome! We are so excited for you to join us this summer…you are going to love it!! We have many new ...
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2020 Contest: Perfect Cabin Moment
We are so excited about our Summer 2020 Contest for this year. We’ve done some pretty amazing contests over the years (who remembers when you could De...
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Ask a Head Staffer: Laura
Today we’re starting a series where we ask a head staffer all of YOUR burning questions. It’s like sitting down for a DMC, just without the Shoppe dat...
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Connecting with Your Camp Community: Staying in Touch as an Alum
We’ve all experienced that moment when you see a Greystone sticker on a car or a t-shirt in an airport and your heart leaps. A connection, a friend! A...
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12 Scary Camp Things
It’s always a great day at Greystone, but even at camp, things can get a little scary! In honor of the spooky season that is upon us, we’ve compiled a...
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Cooking with Solveig: Reunion Appetizers
Any of our 100th Reunion attendees could tell you that they didn’t leave the weekend hungry! In typical Greystone fashion, the food was plentiful and ...
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The Most Epic EPs of 2019
There are a lot of things that make Greystone heaven on earth - the friends, the food, the amazing counselors. But one of the best parts? Our Evening ...
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Top 10 Reasons to Work on Staff this Summer
1. See what the Lord is doing at camp - and be a big part of it! For over 100 years, the Lord has been at the center of this place - he has protected ...
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It's the Store's Biggest Sale of the Year!
Have you had your eye on some Greystone gear? Now is your chance to snatch it up! Run, don’t walk, because The Greystone Store is having their huge Fa...
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Staff Blog: What I Want to Tell My Camp Friends
To get straight to the point….. I miss all of my counselor friends SO stinking much… like so much. Greystone’s 100th summer happened to be my very fir...
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100th Reunion Recap!
To sum up the 100th Celebration Alumnae Reunion feels almost impossible. It’s hard even a week later to come up with the words to describe the overall...
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Thinking about Being a Counselor? Here's What Our Staff Have to Say
We always say that being on staff is the best, hardest job you’ll ever have, but you don’t have to take our word for it! We asked our 2019 staff: what...
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The 2020 Staff Application Is LIVE!
Are you ready for the best job in the world? Being a counselor at Greystone is like no other job you’ll ever have. You’ll work hard, have fun, make be...
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Our Alumnae Reunion Is Almost Here!
We have been counting down the days, and the weekend is almost here! Leading up to our 100th anniversary, we knew we wanted to offer a chance for our ...
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Camp Inspired Random Acts of Kindness
An old counselor once said that Greystone is a place where “kindness is a currency.” We couldn’t agree more. Greystone campers are just nice – sweet t...
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Connecting with Your Camp Community: Loving Your Counselor during the Year
Last month we talked keeping up with your camp friends and now we’re moving on to one of the most important parts of your camp community - your counse...
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Cooking with Solveig: Herbed Peach, Feta, and Cucumber Salad
This salad was inspired by my Daughter Maggie’s request to take advantage of the last of the peach offerings at the farmer’s market. We found inspirat...
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Greystone Gazette
A summer favorite!
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What We're Reading: Fall 2019
When the summer winds down, and our year-round crew is getting back into the swing of our off-season schedule, one of the things we all love is findin...
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5 Ways to Use Your Trunk after Camp
There’s nothing more quintessentially “camp” than your trunk - just the sight of it gets those Opening Day butterflies going! And don’t even get us st...
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A Tribute to Our 2019 Staff
August Camp ended a little over a month ago, and the sounds of laughter and DMCs ringing throughout camp have been replaced by the sounds of Murray ba...
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Connecting with Your Camp Community: Staying in Touch with Camp Friends
Camp means something a little bit different to everyone. It’s a place to learn and grow, to meet your best friends, to learn about Jesus, and have a b...
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How We Celebrated Our 100th Summer
For many years, we had been looking forward to our 100th summer at camp…organizing, thinking, and devising the best ways to celebrate Greystone’s cent...
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Breakfast Club for Back to School
Even though your days are no longer defined by bugles and blobs, there’s still something so exciting about a new school year! Fresh pencils, new teach...
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Cooking with Solveig: Pasta Carbonara
The following is a very simple guideline to carbonara. Using bucatini pasta is an excellent upgrade - I would suggest to make 1.5 times or double the ...
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Songs of Summer 2019
Camp is quiet as we shut down for the summer and are preparing for the off-season! There’s no better way to get rid of that post-camp silence AND reli...
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