Every Friday night, Uncle Max asks us to turn to our neighbors and say something you’re excited for this week. Every Camp Green Lane week features at least one special event, trip or activity we mentally circle. Looking at the calendar this evening, the coming week may be the most exciting non-Color War week of the […]
Today was Rookie Day, when Camp Green Lane hosts future campers and their families for a day of activities. I always wonder what those little ones are thinking, seeing and eventually remembering about their first CGL experience. What was the most fun activity? Did they make a new friend? For some, today was the very […]
Tonight’s Blog is written by our Deb Girl Supervisor, Aunt Carli Falkowitz Hesney Tonight, we come together for our third Friday Night Service, led by the Deb division. Our theme and our CHIP for the evening is leadership. Leadership is a word we hear a lot, but it can look very different depending on where […]
Today’s Olympic events started with eating mystery pies for Fear Factor and it will end with the Wing Bowl this evening. In between, CGL Olympics 2025 has been an action-packed day of wacky games, the famous obstacle course, and a crazy amount of animated spirit. Teams Nickelodeon, DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar started a memorable day […]
Today was National Camp Kindness Day. We believe kindness is something we lean into every day here at Camp Green Lane, but today is a day when camps across America take time to practice intentional kindness. Camp Kindness Day was created in collaboration with the American Camping Association in 2018. Here at CGL, that means the Canteen is transformed on […]
Cooking is and always has been the center of camp. First, its physical location, the back screen door of the White House, puts Cooking literally at the center of camp. But, for as long as I’ve been coming here as a camper, counselor and now supervisor, Cooking has always sat in a place close to […]
You’ve never seen Softball 1 like this before. One side of the field was draped in black, supporting the Greeks and the other was blue, behind the Senior Boys, in a softball game that nobody saw coming. Each side wore their Survivor colors, blasted walk-up music before each batter, and organized themselves into full-fledged softball operations complete […]
A big surprise was finally revealed in the Dining Hall when Olympics broke today. Throughout a Camp Green Lane summer, there are annual surprises the kids and even the adults all look forward to. But we never know when things like Color War, Midnight Madness, the Polar Plunge or Olympics are going to happen, so […]
The 15-16 year old Campers went to Lake Placid this past week for their annual Greek Trip. A few of them decided to write today’s blog and tell you about their experience. For this year’s trip, the Greeks took on and conquered Lake Placid. Rising early for our seven-hour bus ride, we loaded the bus […]
Do you remember seeing your favorite sport for the first time? We have vivid memories of attending our first baseball games or sporting events, but do you remember the first time you fell in love with a sport or activity, when you saw or played it for the very first time? Kids come to camp with […]