Summer Camps

The Colonial Period and the American Revolution

Eligibility: Children entering 4^th, 5^th, or 6^th grade in the Fall.

Dates: June 16^th through 20^th or June 23^rd through June 27^th

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Place: Two Mile House, 1189 Walnut Bottom RD, Carlisle

Price: CCHS member/$105 per camper; non-member/$165 per camper

Come explore the role of early settlement and the American Revolution.  Campers will explore the challenges of colonial life through baking homemade bread and churning butter, starting a fire with flint and steel, making paper, and paying taxes. Loyalists will be put in stocks and there will be a black powder rifle demonstration, bullet making, and a symbolic effigy of King George to get us in the mood for revolution. A large selection of period clothing will provide the opportunity for all campers to suit up as frontier folk, trades people, politicians, farmers, and soldiers.

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The Cold War

Eligibility: Children entering 7^th, 8^th, or 9^th grade in the Fall.

Dates: July 14^th through July 18^th

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Place: Two Mile House, 1189 Walnut Bottom RD, Carlisle

Price: CCHS member/$105 per camper; non-member/$165 per camper

Following victory in World War II, the 1950s were filled with promise and hope. The population surged with the baby boom and prosperity enabled a teen culture to emerge. But by the mid 1960s change was in the air as the nation sought to redefine itself. Beginning with the era of soda shops and Elvis Presley this camp will explore life in the 50s and 60s.  Start by getting dressed in a “poodle skirt” or having your hair slicked into a ducktail and finish in the ultra modern clothes of the 1960s.  Come have a “groovy” time with crafts and games, cowboy shoot-outs, a pie eating contest, baby boom races, and rocket launches. Soda shops, hula hoops, tunnel rats, body painting, trip wires, and a peace rally are all part of the experience.

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