Sep 1, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 12 segments
Camp isn't always easy. In this candid and surprisingly funny conversation, five young Camp Alleghany alumnae share stories they've never told quite like this before. They reflect on moments when…
Elizabeth ShreckhiseHostCami BrzeeGuest
Katherine CromerGuest
Whitley TaylorGuest
Dixon O'DonnellGuest
Annie O'ConnorGuestWell, and so, so if we're, if we're going chronologically a little bit here, so before we get to Cammie, that summer was also our 2016 was our flood summer that we had a flood.
And I know we've touched on that in our podcast before, and I know it's a very sensitive topic right now um in our world um understandably um but so everyone here was here in 2016 that was summer that um Dixon came back as head of uh junior camp and we had junior camp counselor unit head senior camp counselor junior camp counselor yes he um with a really really really great staff and um the flood happened during mini camp And so, you know, everyone, many campers and many camp counselors were all in the play hall.
Term counselors were all staying in the dining hall and with all of your clothes and trunks on the cottage porch.
remember a little corner of the dining hall who, you know, was in my row of sleeping bags and us just kind of hunkering down there.
So, so that would be another challenge of like, am I going to do this? So we had a couple of nights, three, two or three nights where in the dining hall yeah
with the mini campers in the play hall and we kind of had two worlds going on because mini camp was still like mini camping with the mini camp counselors we were delivering food to them um go down we went down and did activities with the mini campers yeah yeah absolutely great um and then just the upstairs dining hall just cleared out and was like a big like just lying rows of sleep bags yes it was kind of the well it's not great but
Once we knew we were all safe and we were all like, we had, you know, we had all of our needs were met, you know, it was certainly, you know, I'm not going to like, you know, make it like all like rainbows and unicorns.
we, you know, we had the, those like hours of like, okay, we have to evacuate to row.
Well, and so, so if we're, if we're going chronologically a little bit here, so before we get to Cammie, that summer was also our 2016 was our flood summer that we had a flood.
And I know we've touched on that in our podcast before, and I know it's a very sensitive topic right now um in our world um understandably um but so everyone here was here in 2016 that was summer that um Dixon came back as head of uh junior camp and we had junior camp counselor unit head senior camp counselor junior camp counselor yes he um with a really really really great staff and um the flood happened during mini camp And so, you know, everyone, many campers and many camp counselors were all in the play hall.
Term counselors were all staying in the dining hall and with all of your clothes and trunks on the cottage porch.
remember a little corner of the dining hall who, you know, was in my row of sleeping bags and us just kind of hunkering down there.
So, so that would be another challenge of like, am I going to do this? So we had a couple of nights, three, two or three nights where in the dining hall yeah
with the mini campers in the play hall and we kind of had two worlds going on because mini camp was still like mini camping with the mini camp counselors we were delivering food to them um go down we went down and did activities with the mini campers yeah yeah absolutely great um and then just the upstairs dining hall just cleared out and was like a big like just lying rows of sleep bags yes it was kind of the well it's not great but
Once we knew we were all safe and we were all like, we had, you know, we had all of our needs were met, you know, it was certainly, you know, I'm not going to like, you know, make it like all like rainbows and unicorns.
we, you know, we had the, those like hours of like, okay, we have to evacuate to row.
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