“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….
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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…
The first time Erin McKeown went to sleepaway summer camp, she hated it so much she tried to mount an escape. The Fredericksburg native was…
“Oh, I didn’t want to go to Nature Camp at all,” laughs Steve Vargo, reminiscing about how he first arrived. “Basically, I was a middle…
If you have shown off your favorite Nature Camp t-shirt design, been warmed up by a delicious meal at a Service Weekend, looked for friends…