January 31st, 2012
Sullivan Short: Sullivan, a native of Greenville SC and a freshman at Wofford College in Spartanburg will return to Illahee for her 12th summer! She is spending this January term taking a pottery class so you might find her hanging around the firefly this summer! We are excited for Sullivan to return as a senior Read more...
January 27th, 2012
Grace Williams: Thankfully, Grace just couldn’t resist the Cherokee forefathers’ call back to the Heavenly World for a second summer! After jetting back to America from Seville, Spain in May, Grace will hang her hat in North Carolina for the summer. Grace’s finishing up her junior year at Washington & Lee and originally hails from Read more...
January 24th, 2012
I am VERY excited to start Illahee’s “Five by Five” postings for the 2012 season. Beginning today and continuing for consecutive Tuesdays (at minimum) we will unveil by 5:00 PM (in no particular order) the amazing counselors who will be spending their summer in the Heavenly World. Many of the faces will be familiar because Read more...
January 19th, 2012
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Annie Mae Annie Mae, where are you going? Upstairs to take a bath. Annie Mae with legs like toothpicks, And a neck like a giraffe. Annie Mae stepped in the bathtub, Annie Mae pulled out the plug, Oh my goodness, Oh my soul, There goes Annie Mae down Read more...
January 10th, 2012
This morning we received an email from staff member Maddy Hargis updating us on a teaching interview she had yesterday. The interview went well and she felt well prepared so our fingers are crossed that she will get the position! Maddy has been keeping us posted throughout the process and I have been reminded of Read more...
November 16th, 2011
It is a rainy day at camp and this morning I heard a distant thunder. The word in the mountains is that seven days following thunder (in the winter) there will be snow. In a typical year, I would scoff at this wives tale, but given some of the early snowfalls this fall; we will Read more...
October 11th, 2011
Our son Turner is a junior at Christ School and had his fall break over Columbus Day weekend. We took the opportunity to complete a pretty ambitious college tour…ambitious not because of the number, but because of the distance between the school. We started with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, on the short list for Turner Read more...
August 30th, 2011
We are a couple of weeks into the off season and I feel as if I can finally begin to process the summer! We have spent the past days tying up loose ends, straightening activity areas, sending lost and found, and laughing over funny summer moments that are being re-lived through video editing. It does Read more...