There are rumors flying around that this might be Camp Tweedale's last summer in operation. Apparently the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania is considering selling off the 120-acre camp in Lower Oxford Township, on the Octoraro Lake. Unhappy (former) campers have started a "Save Camp Tweedale!" group on Facebook, and comments can also be posted on the local Girl Scouts' website (http://www.gsep.org/).
One of the organizers asked me to mention that a petition is being circulated: "There is a petition on http://www.change.org/ to SAVE Tweedale. You can go to that website and in the upper right hand side there is a box that you put in "Tweedale" and the petition comes up."
I spent some time at Camp Tweedale as a Girl Scout in the 1960s. The songs were great ("Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen") and the lake was very nice, but my favorite part was reading "Little Women" in my tent during quiet time after lunch.
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