the castle
junior camp and senior camp
the big rock where everyone found their group in the morning
the pledge of allegiance in the morning
the trampoline
drama
music - folk songs
nature/science - making rockets
arts and crafts
chocolate or vanilla flying saucers
bunks up on the hill
picking raspberries
color war
volleyball and newcomb
archery
shabbat
three swimming pools
campouts (with cropsey)
Howard Johnson's trips
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Reading that the Castle was torn down in 1996 is makig me feel so distraught, like a part of my childhood was taken away...
I still have emories of taking the bus on 287, and right before the exit into tarrytow, seeing that other castle up in the hills. i always wanted to go there, even though i know now its a catering hall...
liitle overwhelmed, that i can never drive up the spiral roads in the woods to get to senior camp, and then to junior camp....
sigh
trips roller skating and to rye playland
I remember using frozen orange and lemon drinks as ice packs, the big in-ground pool, doing a sing along of "do-re-me", making lanyards, carvel at the end of each day, playing simon says when it was raining, singing happy birthday in Hebrew. (attended in the early 80's)
Pinsley Day Camp. Can remember every inch of it. Between the 'ranch house' and the tetherball area was 'the polio pit'.
The day the counselors went on strike to have to fired counselors reinstated - and succeeded.
Smoking cigarettes during overnights.
Lining the softball field for games against other camps.
Overnights and being terrified that the bigger kids were planning to attack us with water balloons!
Racing the other bus drivers on waythe to camp.
Arriving at camp singing "We're here because we're here, because we're here, because we're here!"
Singing "Red Rubber Ball" with my friend Steven K. in the back of the bus on the way up there.
This looks lik ethe old Pinsley pool to me. What do you think?
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definitely looks like that pinsly pool. And maybe you can see the junior camp pool too? Or maybe I'm imagining it.
Overnights and being terrified that the bigger kids were planning to attack us with water balloons!
Racing the other bus drivers on waythe to camp.
Arriving at camp singing "We're here because we're here, because we're here, because we're here!"
Singing "Red Rubber Ball" with my friend Steven K. in the back of the bus on the way up there.
I also feel so sad that my memories have no physical place to go back to. "that i can never drive up the spiral roads in the woods to get to senior camp, and then to junior camp" sums it uo for me.
Yes, amazing memories. Summers of 1979 and 1980, after 3rd and 4th grade. A huge pool, beautiful red-headed conselor named Deirdre, sleepovers in the castle, and color wars that seem to last weeks.
Bus 4, The Moonies, What a great place! First make out on the green spiral steps of the castle with DK, Folding the flag at Jr. Camp., Flying Saucers for Snack, Popping the milk cartons, PBJ if you forgot you lunch, Overnights and Capture the Flag, Mudsliding, Rikki Lake, Dave Wasserman, Arts and Farts (I still have things I made from there), Murray's Skating Rink trips, Playland, Jones Beach, Wedgies, Softball vs the loser camps, the list goes on....
I still have things from Pinsly arts and crafts also...
I was just looking at old pictures from camp( I was there from 1959-1967) --brought back such wonderful memories. I too can't believe I can't go back, can't pick raspberries, can't sing "we're here because we're here" as we arrived on the bus the first day of camp, and "day is done" at the end of everyday, pick numbers for chocolate dixie cups, go to Howard Johnsons,senior and junior camp, over nights, the castle, making lanyards and copper etchings and wood block prints in arts and crafts...I agree--sigh.
you can share memories and photos in the Pinsly Facebook group!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23951016886
My brother sister and I all attended Pinsley between 1957 and the mid sixties. I later worked as a "C.T" then a junior counselor and a senior counselor. I've never forgotten those awakening summers spent "in the country", playing softball, shooting arrows, thinking about girls, watching huge summer thunderstorms roll down the Hudson from the ''safety" of our covered staircase of our boys bunks while the lightning bolts flashed around us. The smell of the trees; the wonderful ozone smell after a huge downpour. The overnight camping on the grounds up at the haunted "mansion"...before it was converted into the Junior Camp. The bus races to camp. all-star softball games against the counselors. Anyone remember the camp director "Uncle Bill"?? Or that "Uncle Bob" Harris who was later fired as a weatherman on a big NYCity TV station because he lied about his entire illustrious academic background, was our swimming director for many years. Did you know that Bobby Hackett, the fastest swimmer ever at camp, eventually went to Harvard and became an OlympicGold medal winner? All gone now, along with the YONKERS JCC.
Still a profound and positive influence on my life.
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