I’ve always thought it is more than a bit ironic that I often extoll the virtues of a session at Camp Mishawaka- an experience that separates a person from all things digital- via the very medium that I am saying is all too prevalent in our lives, but there is little doubt it is the [...]
Camp Letters I returned to my childhood home recently, along with my siblings, to begin the process of cleaning it out and preparing it for a sale. (My mother recently moved into an Assisted Living Facility in the Memory Care Unit.) And, whatever the cause of her loss of memories, she did an incredible job [...]
Two years ago I sat in a room with independent camp directors and owners and listened to a “change guru” proclaim the death of our model of doing business. He called us a ‘typewriter industry in a computer age’, and went on to say that our sessions of “weeks” were out of sync with a [...]
David, Dave, Davey Boy. Lars, Mr. Laaarsen, Lar-Daddy, Lard. Elvis, Swamp Boy, the Doodler, Davey-Doodle. The Captain. Gedney, Gelding, DB ’78. Such were some of the nick-names of David Larsen, and for those of you who knew him, these monikers likely evoke a certain memory, or bring to mind a particular adventure. When you move [...]
Austin Andersen Everett Andersen Heather Andersen James Andersen Joyce (Noonan) Andersen Kyle Andersen Quentin Andersen Schuyler Andersen Janet (Hubbard) Anderson Keith Anderson Keely Hanley-Anshel Sean Anshel John Ayres Jack Babson John Babson John Babson John Babson, Jr. David Baines Burton Barnes Dixie Barnes Sean Barrett Jennifer (Moroney) Berens Dan Beuthling Cappy Black Frank Black Abby [...]
Greetings from Camp Mishawaka, I wasn’t looking for child rearing advice from the man who delivered sod to us this week, but that is what I think I got. I had spent the better part of the weekend preparing the surface: grading, raking, re-grading and re-raking. You might say I became obsessed with it. Yet [...]
If you can’t be with us for the Centennial Celebration, we hope you can visit us sometime during the summer. You are welcome to stop by anytime during the summer, but we are planning two “Centennial Days” during the summer camping sessions that will be focused on celebrating our 100th year. On Sunday, June 27th [...]
We recently uploaded over 1,000 Camp photos by decade from the last 100 years. You can view them at Mishawaka’s Web Albums
Check out Mishawaka archival videos! We will be adding more in the coming months. http://www.youtube.com/campmishawaka
See photos of Camp Mishawaka in the winter. Camp Mishawaka February 9 2010