It all started with a snappy grandma, a bold little girl, and an intriguing picture of Matthew Bain holding a snake out on the Nature…
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It’s easy for Kirsten Talken-Spaulding to draw a connection between her summers at Nature Camp and her career with the National Park Service. Reflecting on…
One of my great regrets in life is that I never got to know Sam Lavender very well. Sam was the caretaker here at Nature…
In 1991, as a 20 year-old rising Senior at the University of North Carolina, I did the most outlandish and absurd thing I have ever…
When Sarah Francisco was a young Nature Camper in the mid ’80s, she witnessed something that had a profound impact on the way she saw…
In mid-August 1992, Joanne and I were driving back to Arlington, Virginia, with our 11-year old daughter, Charlotte, from our second trip to Nature Camp….
As we all know, Nature Camp has an important impact on the attitudes and outlooks of all of us that pass through this place. In…
“We were big on characters,” laughed Mary Jane Gannaway Layne as she recounted her experiences at Nature Camp during an oral history interview in 2013….
Things were different at Nature Camp in Nancy Lowry’s day. When she arrived as a 10-year-old fourth-session camper in 1959, counselors didn’t teach classes—that was…