“Time in nature is not leisure time; it’s an essential investment in our children’s health (and also, by the way, in our own).” ― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder One of our parents had shared the below Facebook video and it really […]
I don’t know if there is such a thing as a normal day at North Star, but I wanted to catch everyone up to speed on the program thus far. It has been very busy since the boys arrived on Sunday afternoon. We’ve done swim tests, physicals, village activities and […]
The fun has begun here in our 2nd session. Check it out! Our guys who just arrived had some business to take care of. They took their swim tests, health checks and played continuous dodgeball. They learned our traditional camp games like tush ball, tetherball, mafia and more. Our 8-weekers […]
We are off and running for the second session of the Summer of 2015! The buses pulled in to find a perfect 80 degree afternoon and the forecast says that nothing is going to change. The staff and 8-week campers were anxiously awaiting their arrival, and they went crazy upon […]
Check out this great footage from our Junior Village Cruiser Day! Junior Village Cruiser Day
It has been a fun-filled week at camp and tonight we’re going to catch you up on some of the most recent events: On Monday, we had our first full rainy day in three years. The rain might have kept us inside, but we didn’t skip a beat. We had […]
Breakfast on the 4th of July is one of my favorite times during the summer. The enthusiasm is off the charts. Songs like Born in the USA, Party in the USA, Proud to be an American, and the Star Spangled Banner echoed loudly through the Lodge this morning. Then we […]
We talk quite a bit about the Canadian as a hallmark moment in a NSC camper’s career. Talk to NSC alumni who took the Quetico trip and they will tell you about the impact that the trip had on them. Years later, we see many of our former campers writing […]
Courtesy of Max Pastan
This Sunday night we did something different. I have been learning a great deal about the importance of free play in the development of children and the tremendous decline in opportunities for our boys to experience self-directed, free play (see here, here or here). With that in mind, for the […]
Tonight was our first Friday night of the summer, which marks our first Friday Night Service. Every Friday the whole camp gathers at the Council Ring (see below) for a values based campfire program. For 71 years at North Star, the first one has been the Friendship Fire. When Lou […]
