Minnesota's Oldest Camp for Girls
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HOT FUN IN THE SUMMER SUN Thursday was a real summer day. It was more like a summer’s day in Alabama, but summer is summer. I don’t think anyone was complaining. The regular instructional activities took place during the day with a few modifications. For instance, the 2nd period riding class turned into a free-swim [...]
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A DAY OF KAMAJI FIRSTS Ed. Note: If you have Google Earth on your computer, “My Places” will take you many of the mentioned in this note. You can also get a wonderful look at good ol’ Camp Kamaji.) Monday was another day of cool, cloudy, drizzly weather so waking up to blue skies and [...]
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Well, the good news is that the early spring-like weather has given way to, well, summer. Shorts and t-shirts are the order of the day. Ye Directors like camp a lot when the sun is shining. This is just a short note to bring you up to date with a few details about life at [...]
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Yesterday was the session’s first Adventure Day. If your daughter is new to Kamaji, you probably don’t know what that is. Most days, 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 [...]
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The campers and counselors enjoyed an absolutely spectacular camp day. Bright sunshine, crystal clear skies, light breezes and temps in the upper 70′s. Kamaji looked like a movie set today. Cabin 4 Porch 2, Cabin on the Hill, Nutshell Porch 3 and Cabin 1 Porch 2 all left on their respective canoe trips. For those [...]
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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 buses two+ weeks ago took with it all traces [...]
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I’ m stuck in a box and I can’t get out!! Seriously, in yesterday’s e-messages, I received a questionnaire from my college that asked all kinds of questions — from where I live to my marital status to whether or not I have kids to how many pets and what kind, if any, do I [...]
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Way back in 1986 a genius movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off starring Matthew Broderick was released. Many of you might fondly remember this movie, but just in case . . . . . . Ferris fakes sick in order to skip out of school for a day. But he doesn’t fake sick just to [...]
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When I first met Mike, he always talked of owning his own camp. And when we got married, we began the search for our camp. Upon taking ownership of Kamaji, we faced several years of fumbling our way through updating the facility, revamping the program, re-establishing the spirit and atmosphere that is uniquely Kamaji, and [...]
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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 preference other than [...]
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