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Revision as of 19:19, 3 February 2009

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Getting started

Birocapedia was made and is managed by a Birch Rock camper. Here are some things you can do if you are new here:

  • Look up some of your favorite things at Birch Rock and maybe learn a little more about them. If you don't know what to look up, click the random page link to see a random article.
  • Register an account by clicking the link in the top right. After that you can write and edit pages.
  • Read some help pages to learn how to use this site.
  • Write an article about something at Birch Rock like your favorite activity, your last cabin, or anything that you think merits an article.
  • Look at the pages that have already been made and edit them.
  • If you don't know what to write an article about, look at the list of wanted pages and write one of those.

News

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It is Monday, November 25, 2024.

  • Trying out a new background (hint: it's supposed to look like birch bark). tell me what you think
  • 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

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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).

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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

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One of the last pictures ever taken of Rat's Nest