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The Great News About Homesickness

Even if you don’t read the article (and you should…it’s really good), here’s a funny, heartwarming story: On July 18, 2004, one of our summer campers wrote a truly epic “rescue letter” to her parents. Littered with phrases like, “I hate it here” and “I am mizrible” and “I have been crying 5hours a day […]

Reflections of a Dock Termite

Dock termitewonders if life canget any better By Ethan DeWitt (now Keene Sentinel Staff) Reprinted from The Takodah Times, a satirical publication of Family Camp, with the motto: the truth is no obstacle. WATERFRONT DOCK, THIRD CROSSBEAM FROM BEACH Citing the cool breezes, the stunning views, and the abundance of damp North American hardwood, local […]

Takodah of the Future

Contributions by: Eric Rhomberg, Bruce Holloway, Graeme Noseworthy and Camp Staff With Camp’s Centennial summer now successfully behind us, we’re starting to look to the future. One idea we had was to think about Camp Takodah… one hundred years from now! Here’s a humorous preview of some notes in our 2117 Summer Camp Guide: Dates: […]

Takodians Visit Uruguay

Montevideo YMCA and Camp Artigas By William Parkman, Board President Kapers are an important cabin duty during a campers experience at Camp Takodah. Imagine if one of those duties was to start a fire under a water boiler before you could take a hot shower in the twins. We take our electric hot water tanks […]