Lake Huron, PA (June 25, 2021) – For most sleepaway camps in America, the summer of 2020 was unfortunately a casualty of the global Covid-19 pandemic.  As the country slowly returns to a sense of normalcy, camps have reopened but are finding themselves severely understaffed as European counselors and specialists, the lifeblood of many camp workforces, have not been able to come to the States due to visa issues and travel restrictions. Camp Huron Lake, located in Pennsylvania’s Poconos region…

Huron Lake, PA (July 5, 2019) – After years of fielding hundreds, if not thousands, of phone calls from distraught parents, Camp Huron Lake Director Marty Feldstein has hired famed photographer Annie Leibovitz for the remainder of the summer.  Despite the seven on staff photographers posting mass amounts of pictures on a nightly basis, camp parents still are unhappy with the overall quality and quantity of photos of their children. Leibovitz, best known for her mesmerizing portraits of world-renowned celebrities…

Great Neck, NY (August 16, 2020) – Shelly Steinstein, Long Island’s self-proclaimed “Lice Lady” should be needling through children’s scalps searching for microscopic white bugs but instead is sitting on her couch wondering how she is going to make up for the tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue from the sleepaway camp closures throughout the Northeast.  Her business has already taken a massive hit from remote learning due to the COVID pandemic and with a majority of schools…

Lake Huron, PA (August 14, 2020) – Jake Horowitz, the only camper at Camp Huron Lake this summer, has suffered through seven weeks of disappointment after disappointment but has finally found redemption in the form of a massive award haul at last night’s annual all-camp award evening activity.  The ceremony put a giant smile on the face of the boy who seemed destined to live through an absolutely miserable summer. Below are the awards won by Horowitz: The “Champ” Award…

Lake Huron, PA (August 11, 2020) – In what can only be described as a monumental failure, Senior Boy Jake Horowitz, the only camper this summer at Camp Huron Lake due to the Covid pandemic, lost Color War as his Blue Oysters were defeated by the White Snakes despite the White Snakes having absolutely no one on the team.  It was a fitting ending to a summer that held so much promise at the beginning but ultimately proved to be…