Camp Half Moon
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Camp Half Moon is a co-ed sleepover camp on Lake Buel
in Monterey, Massachusetts
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Camp Half Moon was established as a boys camp in 1922. The Mann family, originally from Lititz, PA, currently own and operate Half Moon and purchased it from Dr. Ed Storey in 1967, who had owned and operated it for over 25 years. "Doc" Storey had been a history teacher in Pelham, N.Y. and many campers during the 1950s and 1960s came from Pelham and surrounding communities of southern Westchester county.
Also for many years a large number of the boys attending Half Moon came not only from the northeastern United States but also from all across Latin America. Within just a few years after the 1959 Cuban revolution numerous families who escaped from the communist takevoer of the island and resettled in Puerto Rico were sending their sons to Half Moon to have a broader experience with American youngsters from the mainland. The camp is now for both boys and girls.
Lake Buel
Lake Buel is a great pond in Berkshire County, Massachusetts just south of Route 57 and east of Great Barrington. It is surrounded by over one-hundred summer home and a few dozen year-round homes in about a dozen separate, tight-knit neighborhoods, each with its own private or semi-private road....
in Monterey, Massachusetts
Monterey, Massachusetts
Monterey is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 934 at the 2000 census.- History :...
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Camp Half Moon was established as a boys camp in 1922. The Mann family, originally from Lititz, PA, currently own and operate Half Moon and purchased it from Dr. Ed Storey in 1967, who had owned and operated it for over 25 years. "Doc" Storey had been a history teacher in Pelham, N.Y. and many campers during the 1950s and 1960s came from Pelham and surrounding communities of southern Westchester county.
Also for many years a large number of the boys attending Half Moon came not only from the northeastern United States but also from all across Latin America. Within just a few years after the 1959 Cuban revolution numerous families who escaped from the communist takevoer of the island and resettled in Puerto Rico were sending their sons to Half Moon to have a broader experience with American youngsters from the mainland. The camp is now for both boys and girls.