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  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)
  • Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)

Camp Hawkeye (Co-ed, ages 8-16)

Item Number
117
Estimated Value
1890 USD
Leading Bid
800 USD  -  Reserve Not Met
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

Winning bidder will receive a two-week session of choice from Camp Hawkeye, the only sleepaway camp in New England with a diversity mission.  Hawkeye is located about 2 hours north of Boston on beautiful Red Hill in Moultonborough, NH, a yodel away from the White Mountains.  Hawkeye is an overnight camp for girls and boys ages 8 to 16. 

This donation is good for new families only and you have a choice of the following sessions:

  • Session I:         June 28 - July 11
  • Session II:        July 12 - July 25
  • Session III:       July 26 - August 8
  • Session IV:       August 9 - August 22                 
About Camp Hawkeye: 

Camp Hawkeye is a traditional style coed residential camp for eight to sixteen year-olds that maintains an organizational commitment to creating a diverse community.  The active trips-based program includes campers and staff from a variety of geographic, socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.  Celebrate the wonderful diversity of today's America with us while living in classic New England cabins overlooking Lake Kanasatka.  Learn to swim, hike a mountain, and connect with outstanding counselor mentors in the central lakes region of New Hampshire.

  • Minutes south of White Mountain National Forest our program provides the backdrop for an unforgettable summer experience.  Come and share with us; live, learn, and play with people both very much like and totally different than you. 
  • The small community is perfect for first time campers with only 55 campers and 25 staff everyone makes friends and gets the time and attention they deserve.
 
A Typical Day At Camp:
 
A typical day spent in camp begins with a 7:30am wake up. Breakfast is served, with setters from each cabin, at 8:00am, and followed by a period of cabin clean up. Campers have many responsibilities around camp as members of our special community, one of which is keeping their personal areas tidy. In addition, during clean up each camper will have a daily job helping with chores around the cabin.
 
Four days a week each camper begins the day in an activity with his or her individual cabin group. This schedule does not apply for days when the cabin group is on an out-of-camp trip or for special activity days including bunk and tribe days. The second morning period is a Camper Choice period, offerings for which change each day providing a variety of experiences for each camper. The last period before lunch is another cabin activity period.

Instructional swim is a mandatory activity. It is programmed into the camper choice activity periods. Each camper choice period has one swimming group scheduled at the waterfront for lessons of a challenge swim such as to Turtle Rock or across the Lake!
 
Lunch is at 1:15pm and everyone eats together with music playing, games and announcements. After lunch, there is an hour and ten minute long reading period where campers have the opportunity to write letters, read, and relax. This quiet time is followed by a second camper choice period. Next comes a third and fourth cabin activity, after which there is an all-camp free swim or field activity. Campers are given the option to swim and engage in waterfront games or become involved in games on the grassy commons. Dinner is served, again with the help of setters, at 6:15pm.
 
In the evening, community activities include campfires, all-play field activities, special activities and creative performances. Campers return to their bunks between 8:15pm and 8:30pm for cabin time, until lights out at 9:00pm.
 
Each day is different and you aren't stuck with the same thing every time.  You can change your mind and try new activities every day.  Then, after a couple of regular days, just when you are ready for it they throw in Tribe Activities and other Special Activities!  In addition to the regular camp schedule all campers participate in a variety of special activities.  These activities range from Crazy Dress to International Days, from the Robin's Arrow Tournament (an all-camp archery tournament) to Nation's Games.  Campers almost always participate in Tribe groups with points accruing to the summer long Tribal Contest.  However it is not all competition based as Special Activities are often multi-cultural and are almost always based on inter-age group participation.  Hurons and Iroquois alike might learn how to count in Russian, cook a variety of Chinese dishes, or play Cricket

Trips:

At Hawkeye we run what we call a "trips based program."  This means that a central part of each week is an out-of-camp Wilderness Adventure Trip.  These are primarily day hiking trips but can include day canoeing trips and multi-day trips of either kind.  Do you know how to hike?  Well, let's find out...can you walk?  Yes?  Then you can hike.  How about canoe...can you canoe?  No?  Well then we'll have to remedy that.  In the first days and week of each session one of our goals is to get everyone into and familiar with the canoe.  You'll pick it up quickly and if not then just make sure you are in the front.

 

Trips are carried out by our Expeditions Staff.  These trip leaders are all experienced outdoors-people with First Aid training and a sensible approach to the mountains and woods.  You are in good hands when you step on the trail and though you will be challenged and encouraged to push yourself perhaps farther than you have before you will always be safe.

 

Each week the wilderness trip builds upon the skills learned in prior weeks and practiced on other trips.  In the first week you may learn a little about maps and trail signs and in the second you will build upon those skills with compass work and perhaps even the basics of declination.  By the fourth week you will be building fires, setting up camp, and distributing responsibilities among your group members as you take the lead on a portion of  a trip.

 

Our trips take advantage of our wonderful location on Red Hill and within yodeling distance of the White Mountains.  Campers should be prepared to crawl through boulder caves, swim in waterfalls, take-in breathtaking views, camp on an island, swim in the deepest lake in New Hampshire, and see a variety of wildlife and topography.

 

History:

In 1823, James Fenimore Cooper published his 2nd book, The Pioneers; this was the first in what grew to be his most famous series, the Leatherstocking Tales. The main character was an orphan, Nathaniel ¿Natty¿ Bumppo, who came to be known by a variety of nicknames including Hawkeye, Deerslayer, La Longue Carabine, Leatherstocking, and Pathfinder. The archetype of the early American frontier hero Bumppo was portrayed as a simple living, good natured, loyal, moral, and friendly scout whose closest friends were his Indian companions. He lived on the fringe of American society, choosing instead to walk, camp, and live in, and off, of the woods he loved so much. He was completely at ease in this natural habitat and felt kinship with the natural world around him. His awe of the majesty of the woods and trees inspired me as a young reader and continues to inspire me today.

Cooper romanticizes Bumppo's life in the wild based upon his own experiences growing up in what is now rural and central New York State. Bumppo's character embraced the respect for the environment and knowledge of the natural world that Camp Hawkeye seeks to promote through simple community living and participation on wilderness adventure trips.

Across the country there are thousands of day and residential camps. There are countless more non-profit organizations, foundations, and for-profit companies. Each one has a name, and each name has a meaning, but not every name has a personality. Not every name has an idea behind it, and not every name moves us to do and want deeper and better things from ourselves. Hawkeye is one name that does. From the pages of Cooper's famous Leatherstocking Tales series, the moniker, Hawkeye, describes a true woodsman and frontier hero.

 

Link is www.camphawkeye.com

 

Item Special Note

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT AND THERE ARE NO REFUNDS.  

CHECKS TO BE MADE OUT TO DEVOTION SCHOOL AND MAILED TO CINDY TUNGATE, DEVOTION SCHOOL SPRING CARNIVALE, 345 HARVARD STREET, BROOKLINE, MA 02446 (OR DROPPED IN HER MAILBOX AT SCHOOL).

All winning bidders will be charged a transaction fee of 5%, not to exceed $20 per item, to cover a portion of the auction transaction fees. We thank you for bidding and supporting the school.

 

 

Donated By:

Camp Hawkeye

Camp Hawkeye