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The Surprise of Silence
Girls LOVE pets. At Greystone, we have known this for generations. Look at the old photos of camp in the 1920s and you will come across candid shots o...
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Why Time Flies
Thursday Already? Seriously, time is passing too quickly. Main camp is the longest session we offer but I wish it could go on forever. Not everybody f...
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A Shoutout For FUN!
Every day we offer about 45 different classes all day long. It takes a lot of planning, a big facility, truckloads of supplies, and a well-trained and...
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Tuesday Update
We just put out our second-week video, hope that you enjoy watching it half as much as we enjoyed making it! When the weeks are short it is hard to im...
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Quality Time
Quality time is a concept that our family embraces. Oxford defines quality time as: time spent in giving another person one’s undivided attention in o...
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Sunday #2
The story of our summer added a great chapter last night. After a glorious sunny day a surprise shower changed our evening program location. The pagea...
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5-Year
Fourteen. That is the average age of our Main Campers this year. They have been coming to camp for an average of six years (two have attended a jaw-dr...
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"Important Things"
Council Fire is the subject of this Blog’s “granular” look at camp life. We had our first Fire last night so the subject is fresh on my “sleep late Fr...
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Lessons From the '90s
We celebrated the 1990’s last night with a themed dinner and Gameshow EP. The girls dressed up for dinner, we played 1990’s music, and the entire camp...
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TEN DAYS
There are certain things that are known at camp that would not be understood elsewhere… inside jokes, dining room songs, groove dance moves, funny che...
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What's Important
Every morning I read the paper. It is a comfortable routine learned from my father, who had the Wall Street Journal delivered to the house every day. ...
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Clubs
Campers want to be able to “go deep” in some of their classes… to play intense tennis games, do intense workouts, swim laps, run longer distances, rid...
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Sunday 1
It is the 4th of July AND it is our first Sunday… so which gets priority? All you old Greystone Girls know the answer… we do what Dr. Sevier taught us...
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Patriotism
Today we celebrate Independence Day (got other plans for tomorrow…) so I gave a brief encouragement to the girls to protect the unique freedoms that o...
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DADS
This has been the year marked by intense interest by the fathers of our campers. It started early in the year with a lot of emails and phone calls in ...
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Childlike
Camp is a place that celebrates children so it should come as no surprise that we are silly a lot of the time. Favorite free time areas are the see-sa...
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Be Kind
Our theme this year is one that should resonate… “BE KIND”. I bet all of you celebrate this character trait in your homes. It is a no-brainer… who doe...
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Jump In With Both Feet
We love Main Campers! They don’t waste a minute because they understand the way camp works: every minute Might become a favorite camp memory of all ti...
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Opening Day!
What a great opening day! The new system was designed to be REALLY good and we think it turned out better than expected. While we miss hanging out on ...
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Who's Excited About Main Camp?
Who’s excited about Main? Oh let me think about it… Jimboy, Margaret, Cat, JF, John… and the rest of the Miller clan! Last year we had the entire cam...
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Meet Our 2021 Senior Seniors!
Our Senior Seniors are what make Main Camp so magical! No one dances harder, sings louder, or loves camp more than these 35 girls, and they set the to...
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This summer I learned that Synchro is a lot harder than it looks!
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This summer was absolutely, without a doubt, my most meaningful and transformative, and incredible summer ever.
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This summer I learned that there are friends out there just waiting to be made!
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Every summer is so different, but somehow Greystone always manages to give me a great summer.
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I love Greystone because it lets me be me.
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Introducing Tubing at Main Camp!
Hey Main Campers, have you heard about our brand new experience just for you this summer? You asked for it on your surveys in 2019, and we listened. T...
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"This summer I learned that loving others makes me happier than loving myself."
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"I love Greystone because of how much I grow, the people I get to see year after year, and the warm and fuzzy feeling I get while I’m here."
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"This was the best summer of my life! I never stopped smiling and laughing."
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