A Look Back at Leaders-McKinley Shea
We have four amazing leaders this summer, leading our four camp teams, and we have been doing a blog series on looking back at their first year at camp. In case you missed the first three, Patrick Drake is leading the Chippewa, and you can find his first year memories HERE. Griff Parry is leading […]
Choosing Joy
One of the quotes from our surveys of 2014 said “At Deerhorn, I learned that things don’t always go your way and while you think things might stink, if you look on the bright side it will be a lot better.” I love knowing that kids take that away from camp, choosing to “greet the […]
A Look Back at Leaders-Charlie Stelnicki
(This is a post from Charlie’s mom, Carol, which we originally ran in February, about Charlie’s beginning at Deerhorn. This summer will be his sixth and he is leading the Apache.) “It takes a village”, the saying goes. I say “It takes a camp”; if that camp is Deerhorn. Every life has ups and […]
A Look Back at Leaders-Patrick Drake
Second in our “Look Back” series is Patrick Drake. He is from Wilmette, Illinois, and will be leading our Chippewa. This is what his parents have to say about Patrick’s first summer at Deerhorn. In the summer of 2009, having just turned 10, Patrick took off for 10 days at Camp Deerhorn with his best friend, […]
A Look Back at Leaders-Griff Parry
Our leaders for the summer of 2015 have 28 years of Deerhorn experience between them. They are amazing guys who we are proud to call friends. They have shown themselves to be confident, mature, kind young adults, and they live the Creed every day of their lives. You could call them “Deerhorn Pros.” But every […]
Parenting With Kindness
Every day at Deerhorn, we talk about “living the Creed.” Kids hear us discussing what it means to “play every game on the level,” to “be a booster, rather than a knocker,” and to “be kind because manliness requires kindness.” When kids have to come to the office to discuss a disagreement they had […]
Good Enough
I love this quote. It so perfectly sums up one of my favorite parts about camp, and also one of the most powerful. One of the things kids struggle with most in growing up, is the pull between really being yourself but also wanting so badly to be accepted and liked. At some point in […]
The 2015 Deerhorn Leaders
We are so excited to introduce you to the leader class of 2015. This was the hardest leader decision we as directors have ever had to make. Our class of 15 year-olds in the summer of 2014 was not only one of the best ever, but also one of the largest. We had over 40 […]
The Deerhorn Mural
Today’s blog post comes to us from Jesse Webb. He and Ryan Farrell created the amazing mural that now graces the wall of the upper bathhouse in koogee row. It was a project that, after they came to us with the idea, we all thought, “Why didn’t we think of this sooner?” It turned out […]
Pioneers
Our Pioneers left this morning. They are all excited to be hiking 45 miles of the North Country Trail. It is “America’s longest National Scenic Trail, stretching 4,600 miles from New York to North Dakota, linking 7 states, 10 national forests, and more than 150 public lands.” –NorthCountryTrail.org They are hiking about 45 miles of it […]