The tears are starting, the hand holding is more prevalent, the songs are being sung. The summer has come to an end. Although your children will be happy to see you, they will carry a void with them when they return home. Today is the last full day that your children get to spend with […]
All the bags are laying outside the cabins. Yep. This is that blog. Not everything is packed yet; tonight is Cabaret, and I know there are special outfits that have been hanging in plastic all summer just for this evening. Cabaret is a dinner-dance event that’s held on the second-to-last night of the summer every year. […]
We’ll sleep when we’re home. Sorry not sorry. But we’re busy here. Busy making memories. Busy burning the Midnight oil to wring every last moment of Summer 2025 out of this camping season. So we wake up early, as you read about yesterday, and we stay up late, which is where the seeds for today’s story were […]
This morning, a new generation of boys took the Plunge. A Camp Green Lane tradition, now in its seventh running, the Polar Plunge came to camp with Aunt Rose and continued this morning with some new faces. And some old ones, too. The Polar Plunge is a rite of summer for the Upper Inter Boys. Towards the end of […]
There are new names on the walls of Arts and Crafts. A Camp Green Lane tradition, after Color War anyone who has been in camp for 5 summers can write their name in Arts & Crafts. The only rule is you can’t write over anyone else’s name. For the last 2 days, you’ve had to […]
Tonight’s Blog Post is a Guest Write, written by Robin Stern Raskin. And we are united once again. Warring has ended, we’re still friends. We are united once again. Friends forever… till the end. Friends forever… Camp Green Lane. Sing that to the chorus of “Everything I Own” by Bread and you’ll have the 1991 […]
They’re cleaning watermelon off of BB1. The teams are in their respective swim-rally rotations, and the only thing left to do after a week of Camp Green Lane Color War is sing. The White Heroes and Green Gods have waged the closest of Color Wars and today’s Steeplechase was another collision of sportsmanship and tradition […]
A Camp Green Lane Color War has something for everyone. For example, if you’re super into sports, we’ve been going non-stop with cabin activities and traditional sporting events like basketball on BB1 and soccer on Soccer 2. We’ve had buzzer beaters and fingertip catches, and in one Inter Girls softball game, the pitcher from one side […]
Last night was all about the boys. Tonight is for the Female Camper Captains who will participate in The Amazing Race. Prior to the creation of this event, there were several versions of tasks and activities for female camper captains. The boys always participated in Rope Burn, but the roles on the girls’ side have evolved over […]
Man has worshipped fire since the beginning of time. It’s no different here. Since the start of their Camp Green Lane careers, the four male Camper Captains—Abe Genkin, Eli Raskin, Dylan Regan and Skyler Servetnick—have been mesmerized by the signature event of Color War: Rope Burn. I know they have, because we all have been. […]