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- 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.
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- Read some help pages to learn how to use this site.
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During the summer of 1989, Birch Rock's master of all things fun and creative Bob Van Dyk came up with a plan to fake an eclipse for the campers. In other words, he planned the ultimate camp prank to fool every camper at once.
Bob was in his third summer as Head Counselor in '89 and was almost always funny. The camp was small with only around twenty campers and the prank was planned for when the Senior Campers were off campus. A couple of the Sunday staff meetings were used as time to plan and prepare as a group. Bob spent about ten days quickly holding up a newspaper and announcing to the camp that there was going to be an eclipse. Bob would go so far as to read parts of the "article" to the group, an article that apparently never existed.
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Featured Facts
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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)
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