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41238
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The FBRA is a school for middle school aged girls and focuses on outdoor activities and social/emotional learning as well as academics.
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26726
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Located in Brevard, North Carolina, Keystone Camp is the oldest private summer camp in the Southeast, having a legacy spanning a century. The founders, Fannie Holt and Florence Ellis, wanted a summer retreat just for young women to express themselves in a unique environment.
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28538
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The work of Jessica Potter-Bowers, Lauren Brown, and their Two Sisters Farmstead School is detailed. The school provides natural science education in an academic outdoor classroom for children 3-18. The school teaches naturalist skills, encourages healthy eating practices, permaculture, and farmsteading practices.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 13 Issue 8, August 2016,
p98-99
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22633
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The Green River Preserve, founded by Sandy and Missy Schenck, sits at the mouth of the Green River Watershed. The site acts as a coed summer camp to help children experience the outdoors.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 12 Issue 4, April 2015,
p2, por
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23842
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Since 1982, the Gwynn Valley Camp in Brevard has served as a summer camp for children. Residential and day camps, as well as 4-H programs use the camp to teach children about the farm-to-table process by encouraging interaction with farm animals, planting seeds, and harvesting vegetables.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 12 Issue 7, July 2015,
p86-87, il, por
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23303
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AF Wake in Lake Gaston is a camp that teaches people of all ages how to wake board, wake surf, and wake skate
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 5 Issue 4, Summer 2014,
p44-46, il
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27679
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Raleigh resident Kaitlyn Goalen is co-publisher and editor of the Short Stack cookbook series. Each entry in the series is devoted to one ingredient and is hand-stiched, containing only 20 recipes. The series has been successful in the saturated cookbook market. Goalen is also the founder of Wild Yonder, a Raleigh based outdoor food-based camp for adults.
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27719
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Girls Rock NC is a winner of a 2014 Indie Art Award. The group runs a camp, after school programs, and retreats for adults. Their main initiative is a music camp for girls 7-16 to help them learn to raise their voices as young women through music. The Chapel Hill group hosts sessions on body confidence, the history of women in music, and leadership. Girls Rock NC helps girls gain confidence and works for social justice.
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30391
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Every year, North Carolina Bankers Association hosts a summer camp for middle school students called, Camp Challenge. The camp encourages students to further their education and to build life skills to become leaders in their communities.
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34789
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During the 1950s, the author worked as a summer camp counselor at Camp Morehead. Primarily a boys’ camp, three weeks were set aside each summer for co-ed habitation. The author herself had attended camp during one such session where she learned to sail. Returning in college as a counselor, the author was placed in charge of sailing instruction and office duty which included running errands. Throughout the summer, campers were brought into Morehead City to visit various stores and enjoy some of the local cuisine.
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30825
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North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives provide the opportunity for middle school students to attend prestigious basketball camps in North Carolina through all-expense paid scholarships. Two of those camps, which are highlighted in this article, are the Roy Williams basketball camp at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Kay Yow basketball camp at North Carolina State University.
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25396
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There are a variety of sports camps offered over the summer at ECU. There is a lot of work that goes into them, but those who attend and those who coach both get a lot out of the experience.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 5 Issue 4, Summer 2007,
p32-35, por
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2993
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Summer parks and recreation programs offer young people across the state a variety of activities, including adventure, clown, and drama camps; music and art camps; and sports camps.
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29319
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Each summer, thousands of Tar Heel children converge on North Carolina’s one-hundred-plus camps for a hands-on experience with nature. A directory of North Carolina camps has information compiled by geographic areas. It also includes articles on camping and a guide for parents.
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31640
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North Carolina currently claims more than 175 camps of various types, including private camps and those operated by civic, church, educational and philanthropic organizations. A camp’s activity is also dictated by its location and outdoor environment. This article discusses the types of summer camps offered in North Carolina and things to consider, including a camp’s philosophy, emphasis, cost, staff and location.
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