Sleep Away Summer Camps for Boys and Girls in Pennsylvania
Hello & Happy Friday!
We just wanted to let you all know that our Winter Reunion for our 2012 Equinunk and Blue Ridge campers will be on Saturday January 5th, 2013 at the Westchester Renaissance Hotel. Details and times will be made available as the event approaches.
We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!
All The Best,
The CECBR Team
It’s Friday night which means it’s time for another Richie Kamen classic! Here it is — The Grandma Story. As always, the story is available for Download using the player below!
Well, it’s that time of year again for the Fall Edition of ‘The Buzzer,’ our official camp newsletter.
As we work to put the finishing touches on the buzzer, we encourage you to send us your articles, poems, and to share any wonderful news or events going on in your lives, so that we may share it with our entire Equinunk/Blue Ridge family.
Please send all submissions to scott@cecbr.com with the Subject Line “Fall Buzzer Submission.” Thank You!
All The Best,
The CECBR Team
Happy Sunday! It’s time for another Richie Kamen story as we continue on in our series. This week’s story is The Frog And The Scorpion – which is a favorite here in the East Hampton Office!
Since this is a special Sunday night edition and tomorrow is October 1st (and Monday) – we thought we would throw in some bonus tracks for you! How many times have you said — “wow do I wish I could wake up to Reville this morning, just like I do at camp!” Well guess what folks – now you can! Check out the two tracks below recorded by one of our very own CA girls – Chloe! Remember, you can listen and download using the player below:
Yom Kippur also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Examples of both themes can be found in this next story from Richie – entitled “Nails & The Tree”:
Hello from East Hampton!
Every Friday night at camp we have the privilege of listening to Richie’s stories. It is certainly one of our weekly highlights and now you can listen to some of your favorites in your very own home and year-round!
Over the next few weeks we will continue to post stories to our Blog, New Media Center located in the Current Families Section of our website and iCamp! The hope is that you download each and every one of these stories to create a set!
For this week we decided to do something special – we are posting THREE tracks! One of which is a Bugle call recorded from one of our very own CA girls, Chloe! Play the tracks in order and it will all make sense! Enjoy and as Richie would say after finishing his stories on Friday night…”Shabbat Shalom.”
The CECBR Insider Team
The first in a series of Camp Stories from Richie Kamen has been released and is available for listening and download! We will continue to add tracks throughout the next few days and weeks. Enjoy one of our personal favorites – The Rabbi and The Coachman:
To Download the story – press the “Download” button in the upper right hand corner of the player above.
Hello Equinunk Fathers & Sons,
We hope you are enjoying the holiday weekend! In the next week or two you will be receiving more information on our Father/Son event set for June 23rd. This will include a Packing List of what to bring, details on arrival and information on bunking. Please keep an eye on your INBOX for this important information.
We have an incredible weekend planned and we are excited to have you on-board! See you in 26 Days!
All The Best,
Richie, Adam & Scott
It wasn’t much of a surprise to Sheryl and Richie when Silicon Valley came calling last month with an incredible offer to move CE/CBR west to Palo Alto, California. After all, our camps have been around for 92 years compared with the typical newbie startups like Instagram with roughly a dozen employees and is less than 2 years old.The Valley has long been aware of our amazing website and the 50,000 pictures we post every summer. Our families always rave about the quality of these photos. With all the new phone applications available to the masses, the expectations were out-of-control to have simulated camp experiences streaming all over the world without ever leaving their living rooms.
A few of the Upper Seniors and PCs heard of the potential take-over and were actually planning to order their meals by phone from Bunks 33 and 31, respectively. We rejected that out if hand because of our no cell phone policy.
With enormous sums of wealth available to these businesses, it didn’t surprise us in the slightest that the venture capitalists offered to “air lift” the entire campus, including all of the CBR quads, the Garden, “E”rena, both tribal rings, The Ridge and even the lake if we signed on the dotted line.
One Silicon Valley specialist told us “Everything is going mobile. We’ve got the hardware, the apps and now we need the user experience.” While many may romanticize of an IPO, and dream that their company will elbow its way into the realm of the giants, we are content to have the sweetest and nicest children enjoy a non-mobile, timeless experience at CE and CBR just as thousands of campers and their families have since 1920.
By the way,…..not to be outdone by Instagram, our new website has launched. It may not be Silicon Valley, but it is Blue Ridge and Equinunk, from a small town in northeast Pennsylvania
We hope by now you have grown accustomed to the new online home of Camps Equinunk & Blue Ridge! Not only is our new website jam-packed with information about our camps but we have added some pretty special features that will only enhance your online experience at CECBR.com even further! Be sure to check them out:
CampInTouch from the Homepage: Our CampInTouch system is now even more accessible with a login from the homepage of CECBR.com! Just enter your Email & Password and click GO to gain access!
Official BLOG of CECBR is now available on the website: We have moved our blog from Tumblr to our new site. Now everything is in one place and we will continue to update this area with news and updates year-round. To visit the blog, you can click on the green ‘BLOG’ button from the homepage or in the lower left hand corner of any inner page.
iCamp: iCamp is specially designed for interaction and exploration! You can visit our Interactive Map to see all of the amazing activities and facilities we offer on both our Equinunk and Blue Ridge campus. You will even get a sneak-peak at some of our New Facilities for 2013! iCamp also features a pretty sweet Scrapbook with pictures from past summers. You can click on any picture and it will expand so you can get a better look! In addition to feeds from our CECBR Facebook, Twitter and Blog you can listen to and download both Equinunk & Blue Ridge Alma Maters – and even sing along with the lyrics! Pretty neat right?
Current Families, Welcome Page – We wanted to build a website that we could keep fresh with new content throughout the year. Our Welcome Page in the Current Families section is going to feature letters from Equinunk and Blue Ridge staff, campers, and alumni! Currently our very own Director Adam Baker discusses his time at CECBR as a camper, counselor and now – a director! Be sure to check it out.
We’re so proud of our new site and hope that it becomes an online home for you too!