Diane Dudley(1957-63) was one of the writers for “The Loon” and saved many of her copies. Her time at Maqua was very influential, and her love for the woods influenced her to continue living in the woods to this day. She sent a passage from a book by G.K. Chesterton from one of his short […]
Ann Ward
Awards And Ribbons–
Margaret Dahlem stopped on the lodge lawn in 1989, soon after we bought the property. Her trip down memory lane, as a first-time camper in 1925, included the awards when she camped. Her friend Harriet Crumb, who wrote a letter to me soon after, mentioned the same award. There were competitions between the huts, […]
Were We A Clique?
Were they a clique if they knew each other? Or were they just friends who happened to all want to go to camp together? Ann Ward (1958-61), Barb Ballor, Rosemary Orgren, Renee Dean and Jan Haynes were known as the Linwood girls, along with a handful of others. “I was fairly quiet until I got […]
Where The Girls Are–
Girls who came from homes as an only child, homes with all boys or even a house filled with children—the reasons were varied as to why campers loved being with all girls for an extended period of time. Elaine Levinsohn spent three wonderful summers from 1927-1930 and loved being away from home. She had one […]