Letters from Camp: A Letter Home from 1930

Thursday, June 15th, 2017

Who doesn’t love receiving a handwritten letter in the mail? These days in our digitized world, it has become more and more uncommon for people to write a letter, stick it in an envelope and mail it to someone they care about.  If we are so lucky, we relish in the feeling of nostalgia that it gives us.  We love the originality of the handwriting that displays our name on the envelope.  We love opening it as if it’s a gift.  We love the feeling of holding something real in our hands as opposed to reading something on the screen.  And of course, we love reading what our sender has to say.  

At camp we encourage everyone to write home as often as they can.  Each day after lunch we have ‘rest hour’ which is a time to take a break from the busy activities of day to day camp life and reflect. Campers often use this time to write letters.  They have been writing home since camp first opened in 1930. We have been lucky enough to get our hands on an original handwritten letter from that year.  Have a read below to find out what Camp Birch Hill was like in its early years!