Eliza Jones Henderson October 2, 2012 13:36:41 (EDT)

Hi Ellen, I was just perusing the Minne Wonka site on google for the first time and found your posting and that of Laura Justiss. Wasn't that a fascinating time ? The summers I spent there in the 50's and 60's were truly some of the most memorable of my life. I wish we could go back there... (more)

Kristene bachmann September 13, 2012 01:05:02 (EDT)

Does anyone remember me? I remember a lot of you, believe it or not!

Ellen Bayley Campbell September 5, 2012 18:57:49 (EDT)

I went to Minne Wonka the summers of 1967 and 1968. What a wonderful place. What ever happened to it?Please add me to the mailing list.
Best,

Ellen

Shari Wolf August 19, 2012 19:31:34 (EDT)

I went to camp summers of '74 '75 '76. Please add me to your mail call list.

Thanks

Shari

neighbor August 14, 2012 16:14:22 (EDT)

The old boat house burned down Sunday night.
http://www.wjfw.com/stories.html?sku=20120813183410

Wendy Faust August 13, 2012 15:45:40 (EDT)

Wanted to pass along that the original boathouse of Minne Wonka Lodge just burnt down on Sunday. A neighbor was injured w/burns who was helping owner try to start an old wooden Chris Craft boat in the boathouse. It blew up and the entire boathouse was lost.

Eugenie(Gigi)Armstrong Lynch March 16, 2012 17:54:11 (EDT)

I attended Minne Wonka Summer Camp. Many of us were from St.Louis. I'm figuring 1968-1970. No doubt one of my best memories I have of my childhood. Love, loved horseback riding. Sunday services. Chapel in the Woods(?)We sang "Morning has Broken". I so remember: movie night- "The Trouble... (more)

Roberta Potter February 14, 2012 18:07:44 (EDT)

I was at Minne Wonka Lodge when i was in sixth grade. I won like all these prizes for archery and was in Balsam Bunk Cabin.

Davi Richards November 12, 2011 19:13:09 (EDT)

I saw a message from Mutzie Harms Weir written on this site in 2009 - I was at Minnewonka with you in the early 50's. I tried to email you from this site, but it seems to use only Outlook. I'm at davirichards@hotmail.com. If you see this, let me hear from you.

Debby Baddeley Ehret October 9, 2011 11:04:32 (EDT)

Jane O'Neil Fleming told me to get on board and here I am.....right back where I have always been. I love the photo's and have so many more I could share. I continue to sing the songs to my kids all the time even now when they are grown up. I loved Minne Wonka Lodge and everything I learned... (more)

nancy brucato September 20, 2011 16:22:17 (EDT)

Hey Bruce I remember one time our team won a canoeing race...it must have been one of those game days....what were they called? Check your e mail

Bruce R. Maier September 3, 2011 20:14:24 (EDT)

To Nancy Brucato.....check you email...I remember you and at least 4 trips together well. Wave back... and yes, you really WERE a fine canoeist. *hug*

Bruce Maier August 20, 2011 14:45:46 (EDT)

Bruce,

Just read your email.

It brought back so many memories of wonderful times.

Timmy

Martha Record McKinstry July 28, 2011 17:14:21 (EDT)

OMG had no idea this site existed until I got on my sister's (Mary Record Marshall) facebook page. I paged through all the messages and found some from the years when I was there. It was during the Lyon's time and I so loved my memories of the camp although I was quite homesick at first. I was... (more)

Barbara McFarland July 24, 2011 21:08:57 (EDT)

Went to MWL with many family members, Schnerings. Sitting here drinking wine with my sister and found this site. This would have been the mid 1950 s. How the he'll have we gotten so old?

Kendra McConnell Hurd July 4, 2011 22:59:58 (EDT)

I MISS CAMP!
I miss that stage of my life.
I want it back-now! :)

Carol Koerner Redhead June 4, 2011 14:20:17 (EDT)

Camp Minne Wonka will stay in my heart forever. In 1957 or '58, my mother, Virginia Koerner, and my sister, Nancy, and I all travelled from California to spend the summer at this wonderful camp. My mother was the dietician, my sister was about 10, and I was 16. In the cafeteria at lunch, or out on... (more)

Tracy Edwards Murtagh May 27, 2011 16:33:12 (EDT)

Don't know if any of you former Minne Wonka girls/guys read this board currently or not, but I would love to hear from any of you who remember me. I was both a camper 75-79 and a counsellor 1983, and would love to get back in touch with any who would care to write. I still have my (stolen) MWL... (more)

Leslie Pampush Reigel May 21, 2011 09:36:09 (EDT)

How did I miss that reunion? I am in Eagle River right now for a wedding and am going to attempt to find MWL. I was a counselor there from 74-77 working on the waterfront with Becky Hanna. I still occasionally break out in one of our campfire songs! MWL remains a great part of my life.