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Bruce Moreton
Dec 7, 20246 min read
Catching a Spark-The Birth of Night Eagle
I strongly believe that everything that happens in a person's life is meant to be. Years ago, I visited a good friend and his wife in...
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Bruce Moreton
Feb 18, 20242 min read
Heart Spirit - The Next Ansel Adams?
Last spring not long after I had sent out the spring edition of the Night Eagle News , I received a surprise email from Heart Spirit , a...
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Bruce Moreton
Jan 13, 20243 min read
Should We Pamper Our Campers?
I recently re-read a news article from the Wall Street Journal that focused on camps that are springing up around the country to cater to...
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Bruce Moreton
Jan 12, 20242 min read
Promises, Promises
I’m going to do something here that I’m guessing very few camp directors would ever do. It might surprise you, if you’ve never talked...
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Bruce Moreton
Dec 15, 20237 min read
Summer Camps and Some are Not
Summer camps have an opportunity and an obligation to reintroduce boys to Nature, its power, and its beauty in order to offset the...
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Bruce Moreton
Apr 26, 20235 min read
Almost Feral
Unlike most boys today who are focused on their cell phones, when I was young, I would spend most of my time roaming around in the bayous...
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Bruce Moreton
Oct 30, 20223 min read
Water, Water, Everywhere!
For forty-five weeks every year, the moose, otters, blue herons, beavers and their wilderness playmates have Night Eagle to themselves...
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Bruce Moreton
Oct 26, 20223 min read
A Camper's First Summer at Night Eagle
This is a paper written by a former Night Eagle camper for his high school English class. He signed up for a three-week session his first...
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Bruce Moreton
Oct 5, 20223 min read
Indian Trail Trees
The following article by Laura Moss from the Mother Nature Network was sent to us by Fisher Cares. He thinks we may have a “trail tree”...
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Bruce Moreton
Oct 2, 20224 min read
Tatonka (The Lakota word for Buffalo)
"The buffalo is a symbol of self-sacrifice; it gives until there is nothing left. This was imitated by the people in their lives. To be...
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Bruce Moreton
Sep 30, 20223 min read
Blue Heron Shares Night Eagle
(Blue Heron [below right] spent five summers at Night Eagle as a camper and more as a counselor. He still attends Work and Play Weekends...
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Bruce Moreton
Sep 27, 20223 min read
“The Story of the Rainbow”
(Each day in the summer during Morning Reflection at Night Eagle, someone tells or reads an American Indian story or myth that has been...
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Bruce Moreton
Sep 24, 20223 min read
Just a Boy in the Woods
For as long as I can remember, the woods have beckoned to me. As a boy, armed with my trusty Daisy bb gun and my two bladed Boy Scout...
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Bruce Moreton
Nov 26, 20213 min read
The Give Away Ceremony - A Lakota Tradition
One of the most important ceremonies in American Indian teachings (and one that we hold frequently at Night Eagle) is the Give-Away...
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Bruce Moreton
Sep 1, 20212 min read
12 Ways to Keep Night Eagle With You at Home
There is no doubt that Night Eagle is a "magical" place, and you know that some of that pixie dust has fallen on you and that Night Eagle...
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Bruce Moreton
Sep 1, 20213 min read
Night Eagle Alum Published!
Justin Wexler (Earth Song), a former Night Eagle camper, our first AC, and later a counselor in the early years of camp has published a...
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