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Quakerism in the Wilderness By Zach Podhorzer, Flying Cloud Director

Since the founding of Farm & Wilderness in 1939, all of our summer programs have included the practice of Quaker silent meeting. As a camper at Timberlake and Tamarack Farm, I learned the value that silent meeting had for me. It was part of the morning that would center me, provide a foundation of relaxed openness in preparation for the day. The community’s reflection was always helpful and empowering. The opportunity to hear others share their sentiments always gave me a new and deeper understanding of our community.

Only when I returned to F&W as staff at Flying Cloud did I start to consciously consider the role of silent meeting. There were a few small differences I encountered at the Flying Cloud silent meeting. First of all, it was almost completely and exclusively silent. That was a big change that caught me

off guard. People had been moved to speak at all of the other meetings I had been to before. Initially, it felt like we were missing

The Nature of TripsBy Tulio Browning, Timberlake Director

What’s a wilderness trip? It’s leaving every piece of civilization behind except for what you can carry on your back, and it’s a foundational piece of what we do at Farm & Wilderness.

Times have changed a lot from when Route 100 wasn’t yet paved and Timberlake boys headed out with their gear in the back of a flatbed truck. While the training, operations, and preparations for trips have changed dramatically, the landscape and the purpose have changed very little.

Wilderness is in our name and we’ve done this for decades. We think magic happens in the woods, and we take trips to connect to nature and to challenge ourselves. If it rains, we get wet. We then realize “you’re not made of sugar… you won’t melt!” (as the New England saying goes). We don’t leave anyone behind. You have to stick together on the trail, and we can only move as fast as our slowest member so encouragement is key.

Connection to nature is more vital now than ever. When boys are in front of screens an average of 6-8 hours a day, the National Wildlife Federation gloomily reports: “The nature of childhood has changed. There’s not much nature in it.” Some kids have moved their play inside and are getting powerful stimulation from watching movies, playing heroes and “creators” in online gaming or are engaged in social media. But the good news is that kids still enjoy nature. They are often just not sure they like it, so while many campers love trips, some resistance is also normal. We approach this by having half of our trip leaders hired as cabin staff and half as specialists in tripping. Both are setting everyone up for success and for a frame of mind that

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FARM & WILDERNESS 2015

CALENDAR

OVERNIGHT CAMPS Full Summer Session July 1-August 16 July Session July 1-July 24J1 Session July 1-July 12 August Session July 26-August 16 A1 Session July 26-August 7 Fair August 15Family Camp August 23-29

BARN DAY CAMPSession 1 June 29-July 10Session 2 July 13-July 24 Session 3A July 27-August 14 Session 3B July 27-August 7 Session 3C August 10-14

F&W EVENTS Ice Cutting Weekend February 13-16Spring Planting Weekend May 22-25Fair Weekend August 14-16 Harvest Weekend October 9-12Nationwide Potlucks November 13-15

ABOUT The INTERIMThe Interim is the newsletter of the Farm & Wilderness summer camps. We welcome submissions from everyone. You may submit writing, drawings, cartoons, photographs, or other work. We may edit for content or space. To submit your work to the Interim, email us at:

interim@farmandwilderness.org, OR via postal mail to:

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LETTER FROM REBECCA

May 2015 Greetings—

Spring is in the air and Vermont’s famous Mud Season has come and gone. We’re seeing eager robins

hop over patches of the green grass. We have an adorable crop of 15 lambs, with triplets in record numbers. In an annual Vermont rite, the pans in our maple sugar arch were filled with bubbling sap, and the fragrant vapor spilled from the sugarhouse as we created maple syrup.

This year, we’ve been exploring how wilderness plays out at each camp, and how we can stay true to our mission and values. The natural beauty at F&W inspires, motivates and enriches our camper and staff experiences. Camp directors have been evaluating wilderness programming, from trips and outdoor living skills to protecting and appreciating the natural world around us. Our Annual Celebration in January carried the theme of wild spaces and wild fun at F&W. We recently brought that energy and love of the outdoors to Cambridge and Brooklyn this month with our “Pancakes in the Park” events.

Besides cultivating relationships among our F&W campers, alumni and staff, we also are building our partnerships and connections with organizations such as 1199 SEIU and 4RIISE, both located in NYC. Check out our partnership page for passionate, expressive and funny clips of some of the campers who shared their love of F&W this past summer (http://farmandwilderness.org/about-us/partnerships).

Revisiting our Quaker roots, we continue to discuss how Quakerism plays a vital role in our decision making and values, as well as how to best communicate these aspects of our organization to staff, campers and families. Our ability to see the Light in each individual keeps us supportive and appreciative of one another, and to value the gifts we each bring. Your caring, thoughtful support of F&W helps us thrive.

Our Spring Planting weekend opened the camps for summer. We are eager for Staff and Skills week as we prepare for Summer 2015. I’m also looking forward to greeting those who will join us this summer for more adventures in the wilderness. The woods, farm critters, gardens and staff await your arrival!

Safe travels,

Rebecca Geary F&W Executive Director

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By Julie Sanderson, Human Resources Manager

“We All Belong” is a program that provides training in cultural competency and organizational change. The program provides tools and resources for organizations to create a more inclusive workplace. A pilot program was launched for organizations in the Burlington area in 2010, and the program has grown to currently work with 26 organizations.

We All Belong South was created as leaders from F&W and other organizations saw the need for these trainings in our own areas of southern Vermont.

While it is not new for F&W to train its employees on cul-tural competency, this program connects F&W with nearby organizations that are also working towards the same goals. We All Belong South includes F&W, the National Park Service, The National Forest Service, and the Student Conservation Association.

We are partnering with CQ Strategies, a consultant team that provides coaching and training, to guide us in the program. Each organization volunteers 10 employees to attend three, daylong trainings to gain insight and partake in activities to

F&W Joins We All Belong South

Keep in Touch!By Nina Lesser-Goldsmith, IB camper ’93-’99; IB staff ’02; TF staff ’05; Trustee ’14

When I was a kid, my mom would always say, “Nina really lives at Farm & Wilderness; the rest of the year she’s just visiting us.” When I “graduated” from being a camper, I worked as staff every summer I was able.

I moved around to different parts of the country and changed addresses a million times, but I never lost my desire to remain connected to F&W. I would excitedly gobble up the Interim when it was delivered, looking for names of my old camp friends in the “What We are Doing” section.

Although it hasn’t always been easy, over the years I have stayed in close contact with many wonderful F&W people. As a new member of the Board of Trustees, I’ve discovered that reconnecting with F&W has been such a gift and I’ve caught up with people I haven’t seen in years at the Nationwide Potlucks,

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strengthen our cultural competency. As F&W is committed to hosting an inclusive and increasingly diverse community, this training helps us to build upon the work already being done here. We’re also brain storming together and learning from other organizations about their successes and challenges.

Additionally, the 10 representatives of F&W have been meeting separately to assess our current cultural competency initiatives. Our goals are to create new opportunities for training, support and resources that will continue to improve our inclusive and welcoming environment. Ultimately we will develop an organizational change model that will build upon the work already established within our Inclusivity and Equity plan and ensure that a welcoming environment flourishes at F&W. *

Annual Celebration, Fair and more.

Most importantly, I have been able to feel the love, warmth and comfort of being “home,” cradled in the arms of the F&W community—and that is pure joy!

Why am I writing all of this? Because I want to help you reconnect, too. The online alumni directory at alumni.farmandwilderness.org is a great place to find old friends and update F&W with your current contact information.

After creating your own profile, you can search the directory for people you remember at F&W, and invite your friends to add their profile as well. This alumni directory is a great way to stay in touch with F&W. Please take a minute online to reconnect and come “home.” *

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People keep asking me what’s next and I don’t know what’s next. But what I will miss is each of you in so many different ways; whether it is a silly comment that brightened the day, or a helpful hand, or someone shoveling the steps so no one slips. What I’ll miss are all the kindnesses and sillinesses and really thoughtful caring for each other that I’ve had a chance to witness. That’s what I’ll miss. —Linda Berryhill

She enjoys a can of olives on her birthday. She grows squash, potatoes and beets in her big garden to give away, doesn’t “spoil” her plants by watering (preferring to wait for summer rain), and has two granddaughters whose names start with the letter E.

She dislikes insincerity, dishwashers and photographs of herself. She prefers bare feet to shoes, always considers those with less, and for years has quietly baked cookies for Flying Cloud campers.

Who is she? She’s Linda Berryhill, who has served under four executive directors, held many titles at Farm & Wilderness, including Acting Executive Director and knows the faces (and stories) of those who have called F&W home. Hers is the voice, both reassuring and practical, on the Admissions line. She’s fielded countless questions from parents, ranging from packing tips and cabin groupings, to bed wetting and homesickness.

On January 30, as she drove away from the Main Office on her last day as staff, her successor, Sam Arfer, posted the news on his Facebook page. The response was swift and heartfelt, with scores of comments from campers, alumni, parents, colleagues and others.

Linda grew up outside of Buffalo, NY, attended the University of Copenhagen and graduated as a History major from Beloit College. She traveled to Afghanistan with the Peace Corps from 1968-1971 and served as a smallpox vaccinator. During those travels, she met and married her husband, John. They have two children, Hunter and Marian, who are both teachers.

Of all her various tasks, Linda dedicated herself to the hard

choices of the Campership meeting, where a committee decides who should receive an award and for how much. At the Community Barbeque last summer, she alluded to the balancing act of choosing among the many worthy recipients. Stretching campership dollars as far as possible was a challenge that Linda was always willing to tackle.

Linda developed long term relationships with many families, especially with Campership families. She knew them by name

and remembered the stories they told her. Under Linda’s watchful eye, many campers moved up through the camps, some even becoming staff. People might not remember where their kids went to camp last summer (“TimberBrook?”) but they always remembered to ask for Linda.

For many of us on the staff, Linda has been the conscience and the heart of Farm & Wilderness, as well as the historian. F&W staff voiced their appreciations of Linda at a recent all-staff meeting.

“You embody the values we talk about and are hard to live out, with integrity and wisdom,” said one staffer.

And, of course, many touched on Linda’s sense of humor and quick wit.

“Your snarkiness is one of the things that made me look forward to coming to work.” *

, Warm Appreciation: Linda Berryhill

VLinda contributed so much to so many lives at F&W. Please consider honoring Linda’s passion and commitment to campership with a gift of any amount to the F&W campership endowment. Indicate the gift is in honor of Linda and we will pass along your message to her. For more information, please visit: farmandwilderness.org/give/

I just so appreciate your really acute sense of integrity in everything you do. And I admire your sense of justice and equality, and of being the voice of the campers. —Staff comment at Linda Berryhill’s retirement gathering

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Julie then took her love for nature and education to the fields, finding ways to connect ecology and food while co-leading garden day camp and field trips at Life Lab in Santa Cruz. After tending flowers and veggies at Fat Cabbage Farm in Pescadero, CA, for two seasons, she spent four years working

as the garden manager and educator for a small rural public school in La Honda, Calif.

Julie studied permaculture at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center and is inspired by the way permaculture weaves together people and the ecology surrounding them. She most recently finished an apprenticeship at the Stone Barns Center in New

York, which focused on agroforestry and perennial fruit and nut crop production.

When she’s not tackling weeds and harvesting veggies, you can find her baking and canning in the kitchen, playing guitar, spinning and knitting wool, or exploring in the woods with her husband, Jordan, and dog, Galoot. * ADAM GELROTH is starting his second year as F&W’s year-round Assistant Farm Manager and has proven to be invaluable to the Farm. He is quietly capable of taking on any farm task, including wrangling goats, watering seedlings, using various farm implements and helping boil sap during the sugaring season.

Previously, Adam worked in a similar position at New Pond Farm in southwestern Connecticut. He also was on F&W’s crew for two full seasons and spent a summer helping in operations. Formerly, Adam worked at Earth Core in Seattle and also spent eleven months in the Peace Corps in West Africa.

Adam will be working with Julie Swank, our garden manager, and Chantal Deojay, farm manager. He will also help guide the new crop of farm interns. The Assistant Farm Manager position was created last year because the farm has seen tremendous growth in the past five years.

Adam embraces the lifestyle that comes with the job. He uses the things that come from the farm in his day-to-day life. This can be tasted in the numerous things that he makes in his kitchen—breads, pastry or other treats. He also has proven to be great with the fiber arts, which you may see around F&W with the many “Adam hats” now adorning his friends.

We are very excited to have his quiet, calm, steady presence join the team and are looking forward to a great season. *

F&W Staff Changes & New Faces For years, SAM ARFER has done double duty at F&W.

He’s been the top chef and meal planner at Saltash Mountain Camp during the summer for the past 25 years. And, when the SAM kitchen is closed, he enrolls children in F&W camps and dreams of summer.

He traces his love for F&W to age 11, when he attended a house party where directors traveled with a slide show presentation and recruited new campers. The host warned Sam’s mother, “this will probably not be a one summer experience for your children, this will probably be the first of many summers and a life

changer for your family, as it has been for ours.”

Sam spent time as a camper at Timberlake (’79-’81) and Tamarack Farm (’82-’83). He was on staff at Tamarack Farm, Flying Cloud and Saltash Mountain from ’84-’15. He also worked as a crew member during the fall, winter and spring of ’85-’86.

For the past six years, he has been a year-round staff as F&W’s camp Registrar working alongside Linda Berryhill, who was the Admissions Director.

When Linda retired in January, it seemed only natural for Sam to take on the role of Admissions Director. He knows and loves the camps well, both as staff and as a camper. He enjoys talking with families and answering their questions about camp. Plus, when he took the new job, he only had to move over one desk!

In December, we welcomed the arrival of KELLY BEERMAN as the Assistant Admissions Director. Her efficiency, computer skills and good humor have already made a noticeable difference in the Admissions team.

Sam will keep his connection to the summer program strong by continuing to run the kitchen at Saltash Mountain Camp, and return to the Main Office in the fall to start the whole enrollment process over again! * JULIE SWANK is joining F&W as the Garden Manager. Her love for all growing things began as a child raised on a homestead farm in Morris, CT. She is proud to come from a family of self-professed nature nerds.

She studied biology and environmental studies at Bowdoin College in Maine, and worked for many years as an outdoor educator in California, showing kids their first tide pools and redwood trees, leading backpacking trips, and performing puppet shows about elephant seals, among other things.

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Girls’ Wilderness Program 2015INDIAN BROOK OFFERS A 10-DAY WILDERNESS TRIP

July 26-August 16 | Ages 11-14

Any time you absorb and accept the challenge you can’t really fail. You either get what you wanted or gain an experience. — 2014 Quester

By living outside in a small community, girls will:

Find water and magical moments,gather wood and self-sufficiency,talk about personal growth and resiliency, use axes and saws to create livable shelters,make crafts and collect wild edibles,and gain an appreciation of living mindfully.

Farm & Wilderness is a huge part of my family’s identity.

Gather ‘round the campfire What bonds campers together better than a warm campfire? Become a member of our Campfire Circle and make those warm memories possible for F&W campers when the summer comes around. Campfire Circle members make a monthly gift, providing steady, reliable support for F&W and making your annual commitment easier for you to budget.

With a gift of just $10, $20 or $30 a month, Campfire Circle members will help campers:

> grow food they harvest to enjoy on their plates

> learn to use tools to build a work project they can take pride in, and

> gain confidence to climb, canoe and hike the mountains, rivers and trails of Vermont and beyond With a monthly gift of $50 to $100, you can put a transformative

summer experience within reach for a camper in need.

Campfire Circle members receive advance notice of community events, a special annual gift from the F&W farm, and a warm feeling that you are doing your part for the F&W community. Contact Jen Flaster at 802-422-3761 x232 or complete our giving form online and select “recurring” gift.

Thanks to monthly giving, I can afford to make a bigger gift to F&W.—Deb Rosen (IB ’82; TF ’83; IB staff ’85;

Family Camp ’11-’12; parent IB & SAM)

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Quakerism informs the mission and most of the practices at Farm & Wilderness, from silent meeting to its core values.

In an effort to gain perspective on F&W’s history, Rebecca Geary invited former Executive Director Len Cadwallader to speak to the year-round staff about Quakerism at the camps.

Len shared his views on the importance of physical, emotional and spiritual development of campers.

“The spiritual development of young people is often marginalized as a person is coming of age,” he said. “It is important that dimension is embedded in the operations of this place.”

By way of background, F&W was founded by Quakers, and all F&W programs share the Quaker concept that “the Light of the spirit is in every person.” In practice, this translates to an community of mutual respect and care for the unique qualities of each person.

By nurturing the Inner Light, the F&W experience is to awaken within each person a sense of truly being alive; a sense of purpose, connectedness and joy.

Len, who was the ED from 1983-1997 and Business Manager from 1976–1983, explained that many faiths believe you need an intermediary between yourself and God before you can have the experience; someone must interpret God for you.

“Quakers believe you can speak directly to God because God is within you. If there is God in each one of us, then there is the reason to respect and listen,” he said. “That is how the time

tested values can be infused to the children at F&W. We can do that in a formalistic way with silent meeting. Taking the time and making it a critical part of each day is the way the spiritual dimension be included in that person’s development.”

From there emerge the time-tested values at F&W, including simplicity, peacemaking, equity, connection to the land and other vales in F&W’s mission.

Len asked how Quakerism played out at each camp with the directors and staff. When decisions are being made, some year-round staff said they refer to F&W’s core values and make sure they are erring on the side of simplicity instead of complexity. Silent meeting is central to the daily activities at each camp and enriches the camper experience.

Len urged people to explore the blessings of pulling a carrot from the gardens or floating on the lake, contemplating the mysteries of life.

“Don’t be afraid of using the terms spiritual, special and ineffable,” he said. “Go ahead and share profound moments in episodes and stories. If you can share profound moments, then ask (campers) to look for and be alert to profound moments. Where is there a thin veil between the mystery and the moment?”

“It’s not the trappings, it is the change that happens.”

For more information, please visit our website here: farmand-wilderness.org/about-us/what-makes-us-unique/ *

Len Cadwallader

F&W ANNUAL CELEBRATION On Saturday, January 24 we held our fifth F&W Annual Celebration in Boston. Alumni, campers and families, trustees and staff braved an East Coast winter storm to gather for a meal and a program that honored the wilderness in Farm &Wilderness. Invited speakers recalled the impact of their experiences as campers and staff at Flying Cloud, Dark Meadow and the new Girls Wilderness pilot program at Indian Brook. Speakers included Nate Hausman, Ian Gamble, Ken Meeks, Rick Hausman, Cindy Amatniek, Mary Murphy and camper Maxim Alvarez. In 2016, the Annual Celebration will take place in New York—look for more details in the next Interim.

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Preparing for Camp in the Off-SeasonThere is plenty of life and many activities in the off-season, including Ice Cutting, newborn animals, sugaring and planting.

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an important piece.

Another difference is there are no restrictions on where we hold the gathering at Flying Cloud. Each day, the cook crew selects a place such as our Silent Meeting Circle, the Clearing, the Stream, the Naming Circle, or even at a Kybo. The location is up to the imagination of our guides for that day’s silent meeting.

Although it took a short period of adjustment, I quickly came to recognize that these differences were having an amazing impact. Usually 60 people moving in the woods would scare away the natural community of animals that surrounds us. When you sit in silence for long enough, though, they return to their activities. The birds are moved to sing their songs. Squirrels and chipmunks often come out of dens and sit silently at the edge of the circle. The wind gusts through the trees. Moments you thought reserved for fairy tales are suddenly surrounding you.

When everyone is invited to silent meeting I feel a profound sense of scale. Our place on this planet is as precarious and precious as the life that surrounds us. Although I can’t remember a time in all my summers that I’ve ever spoken at silent meeting, I always feel my thoughts and feelings are expressed perfectly by the community member we often forget is there—the wilderness that surrounds us. *

embraces difficulty. We prepare for getting wet or cold and get great satisfaction when this preparation is put to the test.

One of the most dramatic payoffs of exposing ourselves to nature is when we encounter situations that provoke a sense of awe. A recent Sierra Club article, “The Science of Awe”, described what happens “when people encounter a vast and unexpected stimulus, something that makes them feel small and forces them to revise their mental models of what’s possible in the world. In its wake, people act more generously and ethically, and feel a deeper connection to others and the world in general. And about three-quarters of the time, it’s elicited by nature.”

Times have changed over the past seven decades, but at Timberlake we still treat each outdoor trip as an opportunity to bond, as a jaw dropping adventure where we see outrageously wondrous scenery, and to complete our own heroic journey into the wild and back. And when we return to camp, we’re more ready to reciprocate. *

50Flying Cloud’s BirthdayBy Zachery Podhorzer, Flying Cloud Director

As you may have heard, our wonderful wilderness community is turning 50 years old, and we will be holding a reunion in celebration of our longevity. We had our last reunion 10 years ago and we are excited to bring the Flying Cloud generations all together in one place. The event will be held on Labor Day Weekend, September 4-6 at Flying Cloud.

When I consider the purpose of this event, I mostly think about bringing together people who have known the clearing in so many of its different iterations. Although the program has been tweaked and has changed over the years, I believe our purpose has remained remarkably the same and continues to be pertinent today. Helping young men connect with themselves, nature and each other through a simple existence will always be relevant. We’ve always strived to provide what we feel is best for our campers. I would like to bring our historical community back in touch with our current community.

My goal for the weekend is to have it feel as close as possible to a typical few days in the Clearing. We will assemble enough lodges to house all those who sign up for those spots (approximately 65 bunks). If you would prefer to bring your own tent, we will have a designated tent space too. For those who want to attend, but not stay at Flying Cloud, please visit this page on our website: http://farmandwilderness.org/parents/area-information-accommodations. *

Flying Cloud ReunionSept. 4-6, 2015

Register by August 21 to attend. Visit farmandwilderness.org/reunion

to see who's coming and to register online.

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WHAT WE ARE DOING

Martha McPheeters (F&W staff ’98-’05) On a trip to Maui to swim with dolphins and whales, I discovered that the guide was none other than Joe Noonan. He has a long F&W pedigree (SAM staff ’83; Family Camp ’96-’97, ’04).

Rebecca Balint (SAM staff ’94-’97, SAM Director ’99-’01; BDC parent ’14-’15) First term in the Vermont Senate! Love the work. It is a perfect fit for my personality. It is what I always wanted to do.

Denise Straiges (IB staff ’09; TL parent ’07; ’12; FC parent ’11-’12; TF parent ’14) writes: “Big congrats to Anzia Anderson (IB ’11), Sarah Gratz (SAM ’11-12) and Sam Warkov (TL ’07- ’08; SAM ’09-’10; Quester ’11; CIT ’12; TL staff ’13-’15).

The three are long-time camp friends who wound up in high school together (Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn) were all in the arts program and all received gold medals in the Scholastic Art+Writing Awards national competition. Here is a picture from the Opening Night reception at the Met, where their art will hang for the next month. Hooray for Hippie Kids!!!”

Sue Rennels (Dark Meadow staff ’77-’79) writes: “I have changed my physical therapy work from hospital based to geriatric sub acute care. I predominantly travel as an outpatient therapist to patient's homes and assisted living facilities to do treatments. It’s great for those who no longer can drive to our facility, but are having balance or post-op problems. I have a 99-year-old female who does leg exercises with 2.5 lb ankle weights. They inspire and encourage me that growing old can still be functional! I’m still doing bicycle century rides, though the

included creating the large organic gardens at the Farm, including digging out piles of rocks, a chore familiar to many Vermont farmers! Dad also was remembered for his skill and grace with a scythe. He used a team of work horses to mow the fields, he grafted trees in the apple orchard near Indian Brook, and he did general maintenance throughout the year, including clearing snow off ALL the cabin roofs! Dad then became a fulltime employee, Project Supervisor, responsible for camper recruitment and traveled throughout the East Coast showing his movies of the camps. Later, he and my mother, Wini, were co-directors of Tamarack Farm, during the time when the Sauna was constructed. Norm’s obituary can be viewed at: legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=norman-r-williams&pid =172861707, and in the Charleston Gazette at wvgazette.com/article/20141029/GZ01/ 141029063/1101. I am sure I speak for my family in saying that Farm & Wilderness Camps were so important to all of us.”

Charles Spiegel wrote about the passing of Jennifer Matz (Family Camp ’06-’09 and camp parent) “I most remember taking the hike to the Plymouth candy store with her and her two kids. The kids were devoted to their F&W summers. Here is a tribute to Jennifer in the San Francisco Chronicle: blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/12/05/jennifer-matz-san-francisco-development-chief-dies-of-cancer-at-45/

knees creak a little more these days.” She can be reached at suerenn@juno.com

Thom Kanwit (TL ’68-70; TF ’72; TL staff ’75 ) wrote: “I’m living in the greater Boston area, working as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Still hiking occasionally, but definitely not enough in the Green Mountains, let alone farms or wilderness I would like to re-connect with an old friend, Tony ‘Cake’ Baker, who was a cook at Timberlake during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. He is from New York City. Tony, and any other F & W friends, are welcome to contact me at Thomas.kanwit@usdoj.gov or soccerthom777@gmail.com.”

F&W Development Director Jen Flaster and her husband, Jay, welcomed Julia Rose, who was born on November 14, 2014 at Alice Peck Day Hospital in Lebanon, NH. She arrived nine days early—clearly eager to join the F&W community and attend the 5th annual Nationwide Potluck weekend. Julia came into the world at 5 lbs., 12 ounces and measured 19.5 inches! She is beloved by her big sister, Josie, 2½. Julia says she can’t wait for BDC Summer 2018!

Karen Ember Williams (IB ’53, ’55 -’57, TF ’61) “I am writing you to let you know that my father, Norm Williams, (Family Camp ’81-’82, ’91; TF Staff ’55-’57, ’59, ’63-64; TF Director ’62-’65) passed away Oct. 15, just days after his 91st birthday. He had a peaceful passing and my husband and I were so fortunate to be able to be with him, so he had the comfort of family during his passage. I sang an old camp favorite to him: Dona Nobis Pacem. Dad had a full life, accomplished an extraordinary array of jobs and activities, was a man willing to take risks for the values and principles important to him. He often spoke warmly of his years working at F&W. Dad was hired as the Farmer, and his tasks

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AMAZON SMILES FOR F&W

While we encourage everyone to shop locally, several F&W alumni and parents have alerted us that they are now supporting F&W while shopping on Amazon. The Amazon Smile program allows customers to select Farm & Wilderness as the recipient of a donation of the percentage of sales through Amazon. You can learn more and select the Farm & Wilderness Foundation at smile.amazon.com.

Fair Weekend, Aug 14-15Fair weekend promises to be another great opportunity for alumni, camper families and F&W friends to come together and get inspired. Excitement abounds for our Pre-Fair Community Dinner on Friday, August 14. In tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we have invited members of the F&W community who were involved in the struggle for racial equality and gender equality to speak. Did camp give you a place to be one among many, working towards equality for all? We will continue the conversation under the alumni tent at the Fair on August 15. Come share your story!

DROPPING OFF CAMPERS ON OPENING DAY? Join us for a quick, delicious lunch and a brownie before heading home. Rebecca Geary, executive director, and F&W staff will be on hand to answer any questions and to collect feedback about your camper’s F&W experience. Whether you are new to F&W or an alum yourself, we hope to see you there. Look for our email in June with the time and location.

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