Greetings, Highlands Families! We are thrilled to have you as part of our Highlands family this summer! I trust you are keeping up with the goings on about camp through our pictures and blog, and I hope that your camper has written you to keep you updated. We try our best to get as many…
Every summer when I go over the Camper Expression forms (the forms all campers fill out before they get to camp, expressing what they hope to accomplish at camp this summer) I am not surprised that the number one hope for the vast majority of our campers is a very simple one – to make…
Me: “So how was your day?” Cubbie: “Good.” Me: “Oh yeah? What activities did you have?” Cubbie: “Crafts, Adventure, Canoeing, Riflery [pause] Actually, come to think of it, it was pretty awesome.” I’d say that sums it up. A day at Highlands is *pretty awesome* almost all the time. And on a gorgeous morning like…
For the staff here at Highlands, the last 5-7 days have been BUSY. The end-of-term festivities and the full business of starting a second term is no small task. But here we are, Thursday of week one of second term, and I think I just heard a collective sigh of relief. Campers are getting settled…
The bugles have called, the water for the spaghetti is boiling and the buses have rumbled in, and all of camp has turned out onto the track to welcome in Second Term 2012! It’s an awesome scene. Boys who haven’t seen each other in a year slap hi-fives and bear hug. Forever the mother, I…
It’s that scene in the movie. The flag waving over the boat house is blowing northward. There’s a pause in the breeze, the flag comes to a rest. And then the wind switches and the flag sputters up again, this time to the south. A change in the air. A new direction. As this first…
Our program director, Craig Ericksen, gives us a glimpse into the age-old Kerchief Ceremony Even though it represents the end of a camper’s summer at camp, the Kerchief Ceremonies are my favorite gatherings of the summer. I have fond memories of this ceremony during my time as a camper; darkness interrupted by a crackling fire,…
Is it just me or have these weeks flown by?! I can’t believe we are in the final week. I’d like to give you a quick run down of the events this week, and of course details of the final events on Friday and Saturday. Today is Tuesday, the final Division Day of the term….
I know! Where are the blog posts? Where are those photos? What gives?! The last few days have been rife with power outages and painfully slow or NO Internet connection. Something about damaged towers. I think its because half of Chicagoland is in the north woods trying to escape the heat and using up all…