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From the Camp Director...
Happy Holidays! As we begin 2010, Bay Lake Camp enters the second full year of camps and retreats since rebuilding our Island campus. Especially during such difficult times, we want to thank you—our partners—for your continued support through gifts of time, money and talent! Just a few short years ago, we took a bold step of faith, to renew the camp infrastructure and poise our business and program plan for growth through the next decade and beyond! Little did we know the economic challenges lying in front of us. Our continued growth of new campers is good news, and we need your help for the word to spread even further. While we’ve doubled the number of campers who travelled to the Island in the last year, we need to build increases over the next few years to help sustain our new growth.
With our continued growth in mind, we want to extend an invitation for you to learn more about new initiatives at Bay Lake Camp—especially the Island Folk School! The conservation easement, which protects the Island from further development, includes over 3.5 acres of land on the southwest corner. Usually referred to as the “old scout camp”, this parcel can be developed only rustically with no electricity or running water. We are exploring the idea of a traditional folk school concept as the preferred use for this area. Folks schools were developed in Sweden in the late 1860’s as a way for peasants to learn a skill or craft, thus being educated. Perhaps some of you have visited the North House Folk School in Grand Marais MN—this is a key example we are hoping to replicate. Guests would join us for a rustic, artisan craft retreat to learn an old-world skill like building a timber frame workbench or cooking on a wood cook stove. We invite you to visit our "Upcoming Events" page to learn more about Folk Schools and sign up for the first annual Bay Lake Camp Island Folk School the first weekend of January 2010. And don’t forget…
We’ll see you on the Island, Brenda Olson, Camp Director
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BAY LAKE CAMP LEGACY PROJECT
We are on the lookout and we need your help...
After spending many hours searching through old pictures, stories, letters from
camp to home, and newspaper articles, we are very excited to “go digging”
further to piece together an accurate and
comprehensive picture of “Church Island” and “Bay Lake Camp.”
We are interested in Native American history prior to the late 1800’s,
the railroad’s acquisition of the island, Adolf Landstrom’s purchase of the island and his family history, as well as the early years of First Lutheran's ownership to the present day.
If you have any old pictures we could scan or reproduce, any memorabilia or artifacts,
and/or any stories, songs, poems, letters, or recipes you would be willing to write down
or tell to us on video, we would be happy to add them to a book we will be
publishing of Bay Lake Camp’s history.
Here are a variety of ways you can contact us:
BAY LAKE CAMP LEGACY PROJECT
c/o First Lutheran Church
463 Maria Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55106
651-776-7210 (city office)
218-678-2271 (island)
info@baylakecamp.net
www.ancestry.com family search: Adolf F. Landstrom
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