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The Wizard of Seuss 7 Aug 2013 | 08:40 am
Most mornings at 8am, our 100-year-old camp bell, hung high in the oak tree below the dining hall, wakes us up with its distinctive notes. It’s a sound familiar to every Rockbrook camper since 1921, t...
A Camp perspective from Mama B 6 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Attempts can be made to replicate a camp, stories retold, even plagiarized, but the spirit of Rockbrook can never be duplicated. So what makes a camp distinct, different from the rest, making it a pl...
A Part of Something Bigger 5 Aug 2013 | 11:18 pm
Hello there friends, Emily the assistant director of pottery here! As camp draws to an end, we are busy loading and unloading kilns. During this last activity rotation, there isn’t enough turnaround...
Hopping and Hustling 4 Aug 2013 | 08:03 am
Just before lunch, for about an hour, our daily schedule includes a period we call “First Free Swim.” It’s a time when Chrissy, our waterfront director, and her team of lifeguards open the lake for an...
Downright Magical 3 Aug 2013 | 08:42 am
Learning to canoe first means learning strokes, and there’s no better place to practice than on flat open water. This morning, Emily led a canoeing trip to Cascade Lake for 11 campers to do just that....
Many Marvelous Things 2 Aug 2013 | 09:12 am
Yesterday afternoon, our current mini session Seniors and their counselors packed a lunch for a trip to this waterfall located up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Not knowing what weather we’d find at that...
Inspirational Fun 1 Aug 2013 | 09:48 am
The other day, I overheard a couple of campers claiming the strangest thing. “I used Wonder Woman! and I used Beyoncé,” they said. Apparently there are girls also using Michelle Obama, Joan of Arc, Po...
Drastically Different 31 Jul 2013 | 09:08 am
During another tour this week, I was struck how the setting at Rockbook is in many ways extreme. It’s so drastically different from the straight lines, smooth surfaces and pure tones of the outside, “...
A Day (Un)Like Any Other 30 Jul 2013 | 02:41 am
Stephanie Brown here! I am the middler line head and Rockbrook intern doing the blog post for today. As we woke up to the sound of the 8 o’clock morning bell, the air was crisp and the day looked pro...
Amplified Energy 29 Jul 2013 | 08:51 am
We amplified the energy of camp today by opening our August mini session and welcoming 60 campers to Rockbrook. About a third of these are brand new to RBC, so for them this was an especially exciting...
