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It’s snowing here at Camp Dixie
Camp Dixie Lake as the snow falls
It’s snowing here at Camp Dixie. So many think of ‘Camp Dixie’ and ‘Summer’ as synonymous, but in Winter, Dixie can be a very different place. In Summer the hills echo with the sounds of children, today snow muffles all sound. Two words describe today, quiet and cold. Don’t worry, we have a fire in the fireplace and we spent the day getting boring work done on the computer. Meanwhile, outside the trees are traced in snow as great white flakes fall silently to the ground.
The trees covered in snow.
Camp Dixie Open House 2012
You and your family are cordially invited to Camp Dixie’s Open House. Come and tour the camp and view our facilities. Meet and talk with the Directors and some of our summer staff. Participate in some of the camp activities – archery and maybe canoeing . What a great opportunity to learn more about Camp Dixie.
Where: Camp Dixie Clayton, Georgia
When: Saturday, May 12th, 2 pm – 4 pm
RSVP: if you and your family plan to attend the Open House please RSVP by May 9th, either by phone or e-mail us at info@campdixie.org.
This is the only scheduled visiting day however a private showing of camp may be set up through the camp office. Please give us a call if this date doesn’t work for you and let us set up an appointment for you and your family. Looking forward to seeing you at the Open House.
Major website changes
We just made some major changes to the website. Hopefully everything is working properly, but please let us know if you find any problems.
Application for 2011
Whoops, sorry about that. Just realized I hadn’t put the new application for 2011 on the website. It is updated now.
Or you can download it here: Summer Camp Application for Camp Dixie 2011. [pdf]
2010 Christmas Dixie Doings
Rhonda just set this out via email but for those not on the list:
2010 Fall Newsletter
Time again for another edition of Dixie Doings, Camp Dixie’s alumni newsletter. We sent Dixie Doings out via email. If you didn’t get your copy, just send us an email and ask to be added to the Dixie Doings mailing list.
Camp Dixie in the Digital Library of Georgia
The Digital Library of Georgia just posted about a collection containing many photos of Camp Dixie from the mid 1920’s.
Take a look and see some Camp Dixie history.
2010 Winter Newsletter
It’s time for the second Camp Dixie Newsletter! Last time we had separate newsletters for the Alumni (Camp Dixie Echoes) and Current campers (Ridge Runner), now for simplicities sake we are combining them. The new newsletter will be called Dixie Doings, this was the name for Camp Dixie’s original newsletter, we have one copy from back in the 1930’s.
If you have copies of any of the old newsletters, please send them in. Scanning them in and sending via email, or regular mail on CD works best, but we will take photo copies or any other readable format. One simple method is to take a digital photo of each page, the end result is a bit sub par but with most modern digital cameras the text is readable.
We sent Dixie Doings out via email. If you didn’t get your copy, just send us an email and ask to be added to the Dixie Doings mailing list. I will try to post them online here soon after publication, but letting Rhonda email them to you is the most reliable and fastest way.
— Jason
- Dixie Doings 2010 Winter [In PDF format]
From Boy to Man
Those of you who were at the reunion will remember Chris Neilson. Chris wrote this and graciously allowed us to republish it on our site.
From Boy to Man
By: Christopher M. “Chris” Neilson
(Chris stayed several years in the mid to late 1960’s)
I came to Camp Dixie as a boy,
where I learned the outdoors was a joy!
At first I was homesick and wanted to cry,
but wanted to stay when it was time for goodbye.
In Lapidary I learned to turn stone into a ring.
I even learned to like to sing!
I portaged canoes down many a big dam,
and that’s when I started to become a man!
In crafts I turned wood into a drum,
I even learned to like to hum!
I even rode horses into the woods,
Where showering in waterfalls felt really good!
I picked fresh berries and made pancakes,
And skied and swam in many lakes!
In canoes, I learned to row.
I also learned to shoot a bow!
I helped bail hay in the fields.
I enjoyed many great meals!
I even learned to shoot a rifle.
I really had an early life full!
We assembled at dawn on the tennis courts,
And played all kinds of sports!
I learned to ski on Lake Rabun,
Where I learned to make a campfire burn!
After dusk there was always taps.
At dawn Reveille!
Sometimes we went
Square Dancing in Mountain City!
The Moss Lady stories would
shiver my timbers!
And all of the exercise made
me quite limber!
Time has a way of slipping by,
All I can say is “My Oh My”!
I don’t think I would be who I am today,
If it wasn’t for my many a stay!
I could go on and on but there’s not enough space,
Suffice it to say I love this place!
There’s so much to say and not enough time.
But I must say my dear Camp Dixie…is really sublime!!!
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