2009 – A Year to Remember
January 8th, 2010We are taking a look back at our summer of 2009 and remembering…
Barn Overnights
Splashing in puddles
The Egg Drop Contest in Challenge
Fires in the fireplace in the library
Sunset Yoga
Letters from home
Baskets in the Art House
Spirit Night
Ice Cream on Sundays
Rangers in the War Canoe
Visitors’ Weekend Horseshow, Drama and Sychronized Swimming
“The sun is out!!”
Camp Sisters
Logs — funny ones, serious ones, rhyming ones, musical ones…
Wearing whites on Sunday
Camp Birthday Celebration… Happy 103rd ALC!
SOARing
The Camper Show
Fairy sightings on the path to Challenge
Dining Room Squad
Out of Camp Trips: Chairbacks, Moose River, Camden Hills, Sugarloaf, Katahdin..
Extended Trips departures from ALC
Extended Trips returns to ALC
Sunday songs in the dining room..Dominique!!
Backwards Day
The “Croc” Hunter
PT projects with the Jr. CTs
Apples in the basket in the dining room
The ever-silly Counselor Show
Guide Crew and their crazy hats
Revielle in the morning
Three minute showers
Thursday night Bungalow dinners
The Counselor Hunt
Tent inspections
Teaspoons balancing on noses
Saturday Night Theatre
Everyone brushing their teeth all together in Grasshopper and Paradise
Squeals of delight while sliding down the slip ‘n slide
4th of July tug-of-war
The Loon Mobile!
Wearing your evening clothes
Beach days
Frozen bananas dipped in chocolate
Morale Boosters
Tetherball
Wimbeldon on the blue tennis courts
CTs singing
Tent overnights
Swimming in the lake, swimming in the ocean, swimming across the lake!
Campfire skits
Flashlights and headlamps
Blue blankets on beds made the ALC-way
Mrs. M’s stories
Song Contest
The Laundry Queen
Sunday in the Pines
Dance performances by Russian campers
The smell of the pine trees
The sound of the loons
A hug goodbye from a tentmate, a counselor, a friend….
We remember all the fun we shared and thank each and every member of our camp community for making ALC 2009 a summer filled with amazing memories. Share your favorite memories from last summer, or any summer spent at ALC!


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What am I thankful for? In addition to being thankful for my family and friends, I am thankful for the wonderful ALC community that I have had the privilege to be a part of for over 40 years. I am thankful that Alford Lake is, after 104 years, still a place where young women (and men) can experience the unique gift of believing in themselves. I am thankful that our extended ALC community supports and continues to value our traditional residential camp experience for the special girls in their lives. I am thankful for happy campers, dedicated counselors, white canvas tents, loons on Alford Lake, sunny days, ALC songs and my treasured memories of our summers shared together. In short, I am thankful for all of you who make Alford Lake Camp such a wonderful community! And for those of you who live overseas and do not eat turkey on Thursday, please know that we send our warmest wishes and are thinking of you on our Day of Thanks…




