Camp, News, The Importance of Camp, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office
Camp Kamaji was one of two featured camps in the today’s (Sunday, July 10, 2011) edition of The Bemidji Pioneer. You can read more here! AREA CAMPS PROVIDE YOUNGSTERS SUMMER ADVENTURE
Camp, The Importance of Camp, Why Summer Camp
As Mike wrote in an earlier blog posted on July 21st “Most days at Kamaji, the campers attend four different instructional activity periods — two in the morning and two in the afternoon — and have a free period at the end of the afternoon. They don’t necessarily...
Camp, For Kamaji Campers Only, The Importance of Camp, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office, Why Summer Camp
Greetings from Camp Kamaji where it is much too quiet for our liking!! Although summertime has yet to give way to Autumn, the life-and-breath, the heart-and-soul, the campers and staff are no longer in residence. Camp is simply not “camp” – the last of the departing...
Camp, The Importance of Camp, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office
Recently someone not connected with camp asked me “Why did you choose a girls’ camp to own?” Truth is, Mike and I did not intentionally choose a girls’ camp over a boys’ camp. When we started out in 1978 to look for a summer camp to own and direct, we had no...
Camp, The Importance of Camp, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office, Why Summer Camp
Did you know that summer camp is an American invention – with camps becoming more and more widespread 90 to 100 years ago?? As discussed in a 2002 article written by Kay S. Hymowitz titled Notes on Camp, “Back then forward-thinking youth leaders worried about...
Camp, The Importance of Camp, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office
Greetings from Kamaji! In this day and age, we hear so much about heroes; usually, these are folks who are athletes like tennis pro Serena Williams, soccer player Mia Hamm, figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi or downhill Lindsey Vonn; or public figures including First...
