Getting started
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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.
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News
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It is Monday, November 25, 2024.
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Mike Mattson is the current director of Birch Rock, a position he has held since 2002. Before that he was the assistant director to Rich Deering for four years starting in 1998. He was also Head Counselor for four years beginning in 1995 and was the Waterfront Director for three summers. Mike's camper years were spent mostly on the field and at the Nature and Campcraft areas. He also loved Instructional Swim and was often first in the water.
At the Chip Ceremony in the early '90s, Mike said, "...and for those of you who are wondering if I will be back next summer, I tell you this, Mike Mattson never leaves Birch Rock!"
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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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