Dedication to the Chapel on the Beach

An excerpt from Days Filled with Sunshine: 100 Years of Camp Arcadia by Stephanie J. Jass By Kristin Jass, 2012 “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”  C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory Twenty years before the Lewis quote, the founders […]

Days filled with sunshine . . . and surfing!

Shuffleboard, pickleball and softball are not the only sports that campers enjoy while at Camp. For Russ Miller and the Taylor family, surfing is a staple activity while on the shores of Lake Michigan. An East Coast native, Ryan Taylor grew up surfing in the Atlantic. When he started attending Family Weeks in 2000 after […]