Author: Angie Wenzl

Camp Birthday is a long-standing tradition here at Towering Pines, and this year was no exception.  A lot  goes on behind the scenes in order to make this celebration a success including:  making the birthday badges, creating the TP birthday card, and baking and decorating the amazing birthday cake.  We celebrate how many years each camper has been at Towering Pines, and, of course, sing “Happy Birthday” to TP and eat the delicious cake!!   After dinner campers watch old […]

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. -Harold Kushner Camp Towering Pines is excited to participate in #CampKindnessDay #KindnessEvolution. We are joining camps across the country on July 24 to intentionally focus our programming around kindness.  Acts of kindness occur every day at camp, and the best part is that campers take that spirit of kindness with them out into the world and spread it around. Kindness in the camp community is visible in […]

Ahhhhh .  .  .  .  back in the north woods again.  How I have missed the smell of the White Pine, the fresh air, the sound of the waves hitting the docks and mosquitoes buzzing in my ear.  But what I have missed most of all is the sound of chatter and laughter resonating through these woods.  Hearing the boys’ voices as they converse at meal time, as they play games while waiting for assembly and as they boisterously sing […]

There is always a conflict of emotions for me at the closing of each summer at camp. I’m, of course, happy to return to my home in Nebraska and see all of the familiar faces and places that I’ve missed over the past several weeks. However, there is an intense feeling of sadness that comes over me as well when I bid farewell to the campers, counselors and staff who have over the summer become like family to me. Some […]

Now that campers are into their 6th and final week of camp for this year, we thought we would give you a glimpse of what kind of camper you can expect from head to toe upon their return home…. Six-week campers have a good foot to stand on, two feet in fact. Feet that have been stepping one foot in front of the other, as they have taken steps giving them newfound independence. Feet leading the camper down paths untravelled, to step […]