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Fall Contest: Design a 2025 Banquet Sticker!

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Contests and prizes are some of our favorite things at camp, and you still have a little bit of time to enter our fall 2024 contest! We’re giving you ...

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Senior-Senior Summer and Greystone’s Impact from a Parent’s Perspective

by Catherine

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It’s the season of gratitude and reflection and looking back on all of the good gifts of 2024. Each year, some of our biggest blessings are our camp f...

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We Will Miss You, Anne Hayden!

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It is with great sadness for us and excitement for her that we announce that Anne Hayden Wray is heading to snowier slopes as she leaves working with ...

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Giving Tuesday: Join Us Today and Support our Campership Program!

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On this year’s Giving Tuesday, we ask you to join us in celebrating this international day of philanthropy!

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Staff Blog: How I Grew as a Greystone Counselor

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by Catherine

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We are in the thick of staff hiring season here in Tuxedo, and getting to talk to prospective counselors all day is such a joy! We love telling them t...

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What We're Into: Fall Favorites

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by Sarah

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Camp is magnificent right now, and we wish you could join us here in Tuxedo! The leaves are falling, the campfires are burning, and the temperature is...

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Our 2024 Alumnae Sparks is Live!

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Greystone Alumnae, it’s time to find a cozy blanket and get reading! We are so very excited to welcome you back into the gates of Greystone as we shar...

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Praying for Your Daughter's Camp Experience

by Catherine

by Catherine

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We don’t have to tell you that we are entering a busy time of year! Your days are likely already filled to the brim with school deadlines, holiday pla...

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Apply Now to Work in the Greystone Kitchen

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by Catherine

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If you’re a high school student looking for a fun, impactful, and growth-filled summer job, you have come to the right place. Our Kitchen Staff applic...

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New Resource: Following God after Greystone

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by Catherine

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Our camp ministers and their families are favorite members of our community each summer, and our 2024 pastors were some of the best! Stewart Swain fro...

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Hurricane Repairs and Ways to Help Western North Carolina

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by Catherine

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We have been overwhelmed by the amount of love and support our camp community has shown in the last few weeks since Hurricane Helene hit our area, bot...

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Hurricane Helene Update

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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Thank you for your many emails, calls, texts, and prayers of support. The eye of the hurricane passed directly over camp on Friday morning, shortly be...

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The 2025 Greystone Counselor Application is live!

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by Catherine

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It’s one of our favorite days of the year - the 2025 Greystone Staff Application is officially live! This is your chance to apply early and secure the...

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August 9 2024

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If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one. C.S. Lewis, The Horse And His Boy I assume not many ...

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August 8, 2024

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It’s not yet raining and doesn’t look like it will be until some mid-afternoon showers. It will be a wet afternoon, but not a big rain storm like we e...

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August 7 2024

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What a glorious day! Partly sunny skies, almost no chance of rain, perfect 84 degree high temperature, and we are enjoying another Great Day. Our last...

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RAIN PLAN

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by Jimboy

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Bad weather (Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, Tornadoes) is not unusual at camp. About 20 years ago, a tropical depression brought a deluge of rain on Ope...

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August 5 2024

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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Why do we not allow older girls at shorter sessions? This is a reasonable question and will be on your mind when you contemplate a return to camp next...

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August 4 2024

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We started our day with a morning run, almost everyone showing up for Stumblers (our running club). This is a club my father started many years ago, c...

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August 3 2024

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I didn’t sleep well last night… a side effect of my torn rotator cuff injury last month. Medical update: it feels much better, but still wakes me up s...

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August 2 2024

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We’ve gotten a few calls about how to register for next summer. An understandable question because on our website, all of next year’s sessions indicat...

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August 1 2024

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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Lives are touched in a very powerful way at camp, a fact that would come as no surprise to Dr. Sevier (who chose to start a girl’s camp and retire fro...

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July 31 2024

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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When was the last time you received a handwritten letter in the mail? Have you ever gotten one from a 16-year-old? Handwritten letters are increasingl...

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July 30 2024

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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Imagine this: the bugle has just blown and you are a camper running to your first “whole camp” assembly in the FORT. There is a crack of thunder, then...

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July 29 2024

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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Summer camps are not understood by most people. It isn’t a “popular” thing to do and most don’t even know about them. Their only contact is through mo...

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July 27 2024

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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Who’s Excited About Monday? ME!!! August Campers love me, and I love them. This is not a braggy comment, just a statement of fact. I am liked by the c...

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July 25 2024

by Jimboy

by Jimboy

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I didn’t carry trunks this morning. For the first time in forty years, I was sidelined and put on the injured reserve (or permanently removed from the...

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