Specialized nature day camp. Learn through nature games, crafts and hikes.
Summer nature explorations located atop Chickatawbut Hill offers campers a unique location to discover nature through hands on exploration, creative play, & experiential learning. Camp hours are 9:00am-3:00pm with extended day option until 5:00pm.
Strong swimming, soccer,arts,music,nature,woodworking,sports,theater,trips.extended daycare.Voted best camp on South Shore for 2000,2001,2003,2004,2005,2006.
Values programming at our 25 wooded acres in Blue Hills, 20 min. from Boston. Transportation and lunch provided
A failed colonyThe site of Weymouth first saw European inhabitants in 1622 as Wessagusset Colony, a colony founded by Thomas Weston, who had been the main backer of the Plymouth settlement. The settlement was a failure. The sixty men taken from London were ill-prepared for the hardships required for survival. They also may have lacked the motivation of the Pilgrims as this colony was purely economic in motivation and the men had not brought their families. By winter, poor planning and bad management led to supplies running out. With the Plymouth colonists having few supplies to share, the Weymouth men began to steal from the local Massachusetts nation. Foraging in cooperation with the Pilgrims and trading with Natives was insufficient, and some colonists began to steal from the natives. By now, many in the colony were ill and all forms of law and order had broken down. The lowest point came when a healthy settler was caught stealing supplies from the Massachusetts and the Massachusetts leaders demanded the thief's execution; the Weymouth men complied but either executed or failed to substitute for execution a dying, sick settler instead. By April 1623, word of conflict between Native Americans and the Virginia colonists had reached the north and this increased the tension between the two groups.