April 2nd, 2010
Okay, you have just dropped off your wonderful little nuggets for their first overnight camp experience. Are you going on vacation, looking to tackle some items on that to do list or…. counting the days until your little ones get home? Whatever your situation, at Mercersburg Summer we like to keep our parents in the loop. This past summer we took around 4500 pictures and posted at times, hundreds nightly to our Flickr site. We also utilize Twitter, that allows us to post stream of consciousness updates and pictures several times daily.
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April 2nd, 2010
There’s something about a Mercersburg Adventure Camp campfire. Picture a rowdy group of campers and counselors belting their favorite camp songs, underneath the stars and nestled amongst the blue ridge mountains, where else but Mercersburg Summer? Whether you like singing camp songs, watching a hilarious cabin skit unfold or a good old fashioned s’more, campfires cement a summer full of memories in the hearts and minds of campers every session of Mercersburg Adventure Camp.
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March 29th, 2010
Mercersburg Academy maintains a heated rivalry every school year that manifests itself in Irving-Marshall week. These two societies go back as far as 1873 and are the driving force between a week long competition every winter. At Mercersburg Summer we wanted to capture the essence of this rivalry when we established the Adventure Camp Hurricanes vs. Tornadoes challenge and it became a perennial summer long battle with a spirited culture all of its own. Every camper is drafted into either the Hurricanes or Tornadoes within days of arriving on campus and from that point on every sports rotation, song competition and capture the flag contest have paramount significance. Don’t think it’s that serious? Just ask them!
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