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Camp Mataponi (formerly known as Highland Nature Camps [1]) is an all-girls sleepaway camp in Naples, Maine, United States, for girls approximately 7 to 15 years old. The camp is situated on Sebago Lake and accounts for over 5,000 feet of lakefront property. Camp Mataponi has grown to accommodate about 500 campers.
The camp was founded in 1904 by Harry O. Gillet, Elementary School Principal at the University of Chicago Laboratory School.At the urging of Lab School parents, property on Plum Lake was purchased, removing the boys from Chicago and immersing them in the north woods, where they could experience a summer of physical activity, wilderness and fellowship.
In 1974, the Metropolitan Recreation Association, a successor group of the Nature Friends, donated the Camp Midvale property to the Ethical Culture Society, because they were unable to financially maintain it, and most of the wooded area of over 100 acres (0.40 km 2) was placed under the New Jersey Green Acres program, to be preserved from ...
A 12-year-old boy who was enrolled in a wilderness therapy program for troubled youths in North Carolina died in February from an inability to breathe in the mostly plastic tentlike structure he ...
John Poyner (October 1933 – November 16, 2018) [1] was a British sound editor. He won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the 1967 Academy Awards for The Dirty Dozen. [2] He has over 60 credits since his start in 1955.
Highlands Sanctuary, Inc. is a nonprofit organization which operates under the dba (doing business as) of The Arc of Appalachia Preserve System. The Arc of Appalachia has been in operation since 1995, working to create and steward nature preserves in the forested Appalachian counties of southern Ohio.
"John's got a huge arm," WSU coach Jake Dickert said. In the third week of WSU fall camp, which continued with Day 10 on Monday, it was perhaps the best throw Mateer made all camp.
John Smyth (1941–2018), a barrister best known for acting for Mary Whitehouse in her 1977 private prosecution for blasphemy against the newspaper Gay News, was a camp leader on the Iwerne camps from 1964 to 1984, chair of the Iwerne Trust 1974–81, and a Scripture Union trustee 1971–79. [25] [10]