Each summer, Night Eagle deliberately creates a world that is significantly different from the one in which boys normally live. By doing...

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...

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...

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...

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 with...

Summer camps have an opportunity and an obligation to reintroduce boys to Nature, its power, and its beauty in order to offset the...

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...

For forty-five weeks every year, the moose, otters, blue herons, beavers and their wilderness playmates have Night Eagle to themselves...

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...

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”...

"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...

(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...

(Each day in the summer during Morning Reflection at Night Eagle, someone tells or reads an American Indian story or myth that has been...

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...

One of the most important ceremonies in American Indian teachings (and one that we hold frequently at Night Eagle) is the Give-Away...

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...

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...