During the night of April 27, a major storm swept through northern Alabama (and much of the southeast) and hit Alpine hard. No one was hurt, praise God, and damage to the property was minimal, but we have been left without power, phones, or an internet connection.
We’re working to resolve the outage as soon as possible but if you try to contact us without receiving a response, you’ll know why. We look forward to talking to you once our communications are restored.
It’s really quiet around camp now that the summer of 2009 is over. We miss camp and all the fun sights and sounds we had here just only a week ago. We did have an official Bully Burger pool cookout (even though Bully has gone back to school) last night. Mr. O grilled out hamburgers and all the Alpine and Desoto full time staff had a fun swim. At the party were Peter and Stuart Hurt, their sister Sarah Hurt, and their parents Phil and Marsha Hurt, who operate Camp Desoto. Also there were Weldon Pless, his fiance, Corynne Ware, Mr. and Mrs. O, Caroline, Virginia, Carter, and myself.
We know many of you are busy with football or other sports workouts. We’ll be thinking about you as you get ready to go back to school. Work hard and remember what you’ve learned on the Mountain. Take the Mountain to your school and your friends. Staring school in the face, I bet there are a lot of you out there who would go for one more game of Slaughterball! Guess that will have to wait until next year.
Speaking of next year, today we mailed out the 2010 Earlybird cards that you signed at the end of camp, indicating you’d like to return next summer. Please talk this over with your parents and get them mailed back in to us as soon as possible. We want to save your spot before we offer spots to new campers and fill up camp. Your parents need to mail back the card by September 15th with their signature and a registration fee.
Hope to see you next summer on Lookout Mountain! Have a great school year.
For rapids that flow,
Glenn
The summer of 2008 was blessed with some very talented musicians, as many of you know. We spent several days recording some Alpine favorites and some popular hymns we sing at camp. We are very excited to now have a podcast on ITunes where we will be releasing these songs, a few at a time. You can subscribe to the podcast and download them for free. Simply click on the Alpine Podcast link on the side of the Blog home page. If you don’t have ITunes you can get the XML feed and listen to them on your computer. Or you can go to the ITunes store and search for Alpine Podcast for Boys and subscribe there.
We want to give credit to all those who helped with the project: Toy O’Ferrall Harmon, Weldon Pless, guitar, Montgomery Miller, guitar, Harrison Ford, banjo, Matt McDonald, violin, Andrew Terrell, cello, William Decosimo, mandolin, Kelsey Cox, djembe, Stevens Shuler, bagpipes. This is an incredibly talented group and we are grateful for their contributions!
Stay tuned for more songs and also some slide shows and videos from camp in the future!
Check out this Fox News story that aired on the local affiliate in Birmingham. Most of you probably remember last year at camp the new activity was Trash Can Band. It was a huge hit! Taught by Kelsey Cox, member of the University of Georgia Redcoat band, boys played on metal trash cans and got to perform for the ladies at Camp Desoto and for the parents at the Glee Club show.
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