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 […]
Tonight, in Southern Ontario, 24 campers, four counselors and two trip leaders are spending their first night in Quetico Provincial Park after their first day of paddling, portaging and exploring one of the great wilderness paddling areas in North America. The Canadian canoe trip has become one of the hallmark […]
While most of the days during orientation are spent training hard, we still manage to have a lot of fun too! Thanks to Derrick Morrin for putting this together.
We couldn’t ask for much more than we had today! It was a perfect day in the Northwoods – 80 degrees and sunshine. And when a day includes arriving at dinner like this, it’s pretty hard to beat. Before we get into our regular programming tomorrow, we first had to […]
The campers have arrived safely and North Star’s 71st summer has officially begun! We arrived to sunshine and a warm and wild greeting from our staff. We gathered straight around the flagpole to announce the cabins. The campers and staff alike jumped for joy! And as we were about halfway […]
I’m Josh Lederman, and I’m from Highland Park, Illinois. I just finished up my junior year at Chicagoland Jewish High School in Deerfield, Illinois. At CJHS I was on the golf team and was actively involved in DECA. My school was fortunate enough to compete in the North Suburban DECA […]
