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Country Dance and Song SocietyTimber Ridge Camp Facility & Programs 2006 |
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Country Dance and Song SocietyTimber Ridge Camp Facility & Programs 2006 |
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Faced with the imminent sale of Buffalo Gap, we have decided to move those programs to Timber Ridge, a nearby camp. Due to constraints of Timber Ridge's schedule, in summer 2006 we will run Family Week and English & American Week, formerly at Buffalo Gap, concurrently at Timber Ridge. This combination affords us a unique opportunity to craft a very special week that seeks to honor the purposes of both programs while offering to each group activities that wouldn't otherwise have been available. While meshing the schedules is complicated, the result proves rich in new possibilities for everyone.
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English & American Dance Week Family Week |
August 6 - 12, 2006 August 6 - 12, 2006 |
Timber Ridge Camp spreads across and down a gentle slope that levels out into playing fields bounded by a sweeping bend in the Cacapon River. The camp is in the foothills of the Appalachians near Winchester, VA, and is easily accessible from the mid-Atlantic, the South and the Midwest.
Across the valley and the river is a forested ridge to the west and hills and fields to the north. Timber Ridge is a large camp with many buildings and generous facilities. You'll find a swimming pool and gym, a Fine Arts complex with various stages and costume rooms, a pub/canteen, fields for soccer and other games, a large indoor dining hall with a nearby outdoor picnic area, tennis courts, wonderful swimming spots on the river, canoes, and many kinds of housing options.
There is ample space for dance classes, which will be held in the Playhouse, the Rec Hall and the gym. The air-conditioned Fine Arts complex (comprised of the adjoining Playhouse and Rec Hall) promises to be a wonderful setting for after-dance parties. There are several discrete rooms on the upper level so that a jam session can carry on without affecting a singing session, ceilidh dance or games and conversation. The pub/canteen is a space that invites conversation and spirits and will certainly be the site of choice for late night parties.
With excellent playing fields, the river with its canoes, the pool with its beach chairs, and extensive porches on various buildings, there should be many opportunities for both quiet and more active pastimes.
Adult housing is mostly in double rooms (with private or semi-private baths) within lodge buildings. Family housing is in bunkrooms with one family per room, sharing bath facilities with one other family.
General housing categories are:
Quiet or party area
Family housing, based on the age of the youngest family member
Closer to or further from evening activities
Specific building
Summer nights can be hot and humid; consider bringing a small, quiet fan to place near your bed (though some of the housing has air conditioning!) Housing is assigned in the month before camp starts. As this is our first year at Timber Ridge, we do not know many of the specific qualities of specific housing, but we will do the best we can. Housing requests may be made on the Registration Form or with information sent later.
Please see Camplife for more details about camp amenities.
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