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News It is Monday, November 25, 2024. The Biroca Quarterly announces Mike "Nordy" Nordblom will be Head Counselor for the summer of 2009 New featured facts about Birch Rock buildings and new featured article, Lake McWain The new Chief's Cabin is under construction. Pictures and updates of the progress can be viewed here Featured article: Lake McWain Lake McWain (also know as McWain Pond) is a lake located in East Waterford, Maine, that Birch Rock is situated on. It was named after David McWain, a man from Bolton, Massachusetts who was one of the first settlers in Waterford. There is some dispute as to whether Lake McWain is a really a lake or a pond. There is no set criteria of what defines a lake but most casual definitions of minimum size for a lake are well below the area of Lake McWain, which is about 445 acres (0.7 square miles). Read more Featured facts Another round of facts about the buildings of Birch Rock: Albert's Cabin has had two additions since its construction as the cabin for head cook Albert Bryant The new Brewster Lodge has a sleeping loft only accessible by ladder Cabin 5 has a secret compartment...somewhere...that has the names of many of the campers who inhabited the cabin Injun Joe's, named after the antagonist in Tom Sawyer, was moved further back from the lake in the early 2000s Eagle's Nest contains a road sign that many Eagle's Nest campers have signed The first group of CITs to occupy Pete's Palace were required to work its construction before they moved in In the '90s a white pine leaning dangerously towards Cabin 8 was cut down among speculation that the tree was trying to fall on Cabin 8 as revenge for being used as the "Pee Tree" by its inhabitants The Kennel used to be the lower wash house building (Thanks Thomas and Seth)

Featured picture The unusual outhouse on Saddleback Mountain