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| We wish you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving, and enjoy perusing our Virtual Vespers Playlist! |
A Year-Round Summer Camp Journal (Archive - Summers 2014-2025 at L.G. Cook 4-H Camp )
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving (And Virtual Vespers Playlist)
Monday, November 16, 2020
Help Create Our New Leadership Fire Ring!
We're on a mission to have 4-H Camp looking better than ever to welcome our campers back next summer, and we need your help!
Our Leadership Fire Ring is hidden in a secluded wooded spot on 4-H Camp, nestled next to Lake Shawanni’s spillway. It’s an out-of-the-way location dedicated for small group quality time, team building, and bonding. It is utilized for cabin meetings, small hangouts, s’mores get-togethers, and most importantly as a central venue for our CIT Program.

Our current Leadership Fire Ring.
All of our CITs who missed their final summer as a camper in 2020 will have the chance get their CIT summer in 2021 - and there's no better way to welcome our oldest campers back to 4-H Camp than with a renewed and upgraded Leadership Fire Ring.

Our spillway and stream, which we're looking forward to incorporating into our Leadership Fire Ring Renewal.
Camp's resident landscape artist, Dreamscape Designs, will expand the existing fire ring space by taking advantage of the proximity to the creek and incorporating surrounding boulders. In addition, we will repurpose the old slate from our Dining Hall flagstones and install a circle of permanent benches. Most recently, Dreamscape Designs remodeled our Flagstones at the center of Camp, and we are excited for them to bring their proven Camp aesthetic and talents to the renewal of our Leadership Fire Ring.
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| Dreamscape Design's most recent 4-H Camp project - we can't wait to see what they do with our Leadership Fire Ring. |
There's two ways to donate!
Crowdfunding Campaign
We are thrilled to be launching a crowdfunding campaign so the whole Camp Family can join together and help make this project happen.
Please visit our website here to donate whatever you're able! We're thrilled for this opportunity for us all to pull together and create something new and great at 4-H Camp.
Bench Sponsorship
One of our most popular giving-oppurtunties at 4-H Camp are our bench plaques.
We are adding EIGHT benches to our Leadership Fire Ring, so we are opening up the opportunity for just EIGHT more bench plaques at 4-H Camp.
We are offering bench sponsorship for a $1000 donation for our Leadership Fire Ring Renewal and Make the Best LOOK Better Campaign.
Folks are always asking about how they can get a bench plaque - the chance for that sponsorship is NOW!
Please email us or call the Camp Office (973-948-3550) if you're interesting in sponsoring a new bench at our Leadership Fire Ring!
Our renewed Leadership Fire Ring will be a fantastic feature of 4-H Camp to welcome our campers back in Summer 2021 - and it will be even better because it will be something we've all done together.
Monday, October 19, 2020
There's Still Time for a FALL FAMILY PICNIC!
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| The fall foliage is... |
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| On full display... |
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| At 4-H Camp! |
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| If you think the pictures look good, |
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| They don't really do the scene justice, |
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| So you should come check it out yourself, |
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| Live and in person! |
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| We've already had a bunch of Camp Families join us... |
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| For some autumn afternoons... |
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| And it's been wonderful to have folks back enjoying our facility again. |
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| So feel free to take your turn and join in on the fall fun! |
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| We still have dates available all the way through the end of November. |
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| (After which I supposed we'll have to switch to Winter Family Fires.) |
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| Sign up here and now! |
Thursday, October 15, 2020
A SURPRISE Talent Show Thursday
Yes, at Summer Camp "Thursday" is synonymous with "Talent Show", so here's a little October treat for you: the LIGHTNING EDITION of our HAFHAH Talent Show!
It's our Camp-community-made-virtual-epic crammed into a mere six minutes of highlights. Get ready for a wild ride as you see the T-Show our campers and counselors collaborated on from afar when they couldn't be here in person.
Buckle up, and enjoy!
(And special thanks to our very own JOHN GOULD for creating this LIGHTNING edit!)
Friday, October 2, 2020
The Grand Reveal of our BRAND-NEW Flagstones!
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| Check it out! |
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| Take a look! |
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| Feast your eyes! |
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| Cause we just can't wait any longer... |
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| (It was tough to wait this long!) |
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| To share... |
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| Our new Flagstones... |
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| With our Camp Family. |
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| Yes, here at 4-H Camp... |
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| We've been... |
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| (And will continue to be...) |
| Hard at work on our... |
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| "To Make the Best LOOK Better" Campaign... |
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| With the goal of having 4-H Camp looking better than ever... |
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| To welcome our campers back in Summer 2021. |
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| And you're looking at the centerpiece to that campaign right now... |
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| At the front and center of 4-H Camp. |
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| And if a project looks THIS good... |
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| You just have to know... |
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| That our dear friend Louie at Dreamscape Designs... |
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| Was the force behind it. |
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| How great are Louie and his team at Dreamscape Designs!? |
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| I'll tell you how great! |
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| Not only was this beautiful and iconic clover... |
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| His idea... |
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| His design... |
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| And his donation... |
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| But we didn't even know it was coming! |
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| It was his surprise for the Camp Community. |
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| A surprise that can be enjoyed through these photos NOW... |
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| And exponentially MORE so... |
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| When our campers circle around these flagstones... |
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| Every morning and evening... |
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| Line up on them before meals... |
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| Sit on them during Talent Shows... |
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| And play on them at carnivals, |
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| Rec times... |
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| And the million other.... |
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| Summer Camp moments... |
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| To come. |
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| (Tired of looking at the new flagstones yet? |
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| Us neither! |
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| So here's a few more pictures! |
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| And if you want to see them in person... |
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| Join us for a Fall Family Picnic!) |
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| And as these flagstones get covered with their first season... |
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| Of falling autumn leaves... |
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| Our renewed... |
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| Centerpiece... |
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| Serves as a promise... |
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| That 4-H Camp's best summers yet... |
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| Will still be ahead of us... |
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| When we're all back together again. |








































































