“I think people, especially kids, are in very big need and thirst for meaningful connections and encounters,” said Arnon Rabin, Kimama’s vice president in North America. Kimama Half Moon will continue to offer a variety of water activities, sports and the arts and put great emphasis on campers building lifelong friendships, Nachon said. The plans call for a choice of one-week, two-week and three-week stays. The sleepover camp will be open to kids ages 7 to 17. The day camp will be open to local kids as young as age 4. Keeping to Half Moon tradition, the Monterey camp will be co-ed and include a day camp and sleepover camp. Upon Nachon's request, the Fritches will assist with the transition. It was a very emotional decision, and not an easy one, but we are excited to see what the future holds with the new owners and the beautiful Camp Half Moon campus." "After 29 years," she said, "I knew it was time to turn over the reins to the next generation.
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Sign-up for The Berkshire Eagle's free newsletters Her father died in 2004, and her mother died in 2017. Together, we made lots of changes and improvements, including the addition of a swimming pool, new tennis courts, new kitchen, high and low ropes course, and swimming docks, to name a few." "I returned home in 1992 and worked side by side with my father learning the ropes. "What a great childhood it was," Gretchen Mann Fritch recalled. Since 1968, it had been owned and operated by the Mann family: first, Edward and Matilda, and then their daughter, Gretchen Mann Fritch, and her husband, Ric Fritch, of Great Barrington.
“It will be an international camp,” he said.įounded in 2004, Kimama - it's taken from a Native American word for “butterfly” - also runs camps in Israel, Spain, Italy and the Canary Islands.Ĭamp Half Moon opened in 1922. Kimama Half Moon, he said, would not be geared solely to Jewish children. Those two operate as day camps and are geared to the Jewish community, Nachon said. camps are in Alpine, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y. He said he plans to invest about $1 million in building upgrades to Kimama Half Moon, one of three camps Kimama owns in the United States. The owner plans to invest about $1 million in building upgrades to Kimama Half Moon, one of three camps Kimama owns in the United States. Camp Half Moon has a very good name,” he said. With a slight change in name, and some upgrades to the modest buildings and traditional offerings, Kimama Half Moon will welcome day campers and sleep-away campers beginning June 26, Nachon told The Eagle. Owner of an international network of summer camps known as Camp Kimama, which has offices in Israel and New York, Nachon plans to make what has been known as “The Best Little Camp in the Berkshires” a little better. “A lot of people are very happy,” said the Lenox-based real estate lawyer Lori A. 16, for $2 million, just in time for the camp’s 100th anniversary this coming summer. The Israel native purchased the historic camp Dec. Turns out, Nachon’s idea of fun includes running summer camps. Other interested buyers envisioned exorcising the property of its rustic roots to build ritzy, year-round houses.īut, then, an entrepreneur and educator named Avishay Nachon stepped out of his car and onto the site, toured the waterfront, the bunkhouses and the hallowed, old dining hall with ornate plaques engraved with campers' and counselors' names dating at least to 1947. One interested buyer openly talked about turning the site into a glamping operation, an idea promptly greeted with lofty contempt from neighbors. The sales pitch for the 33-acre site on the north end of the lake included this: “… and if running a summer camp is not your idea of fun, the property lends itself to potential subdivision into multiple, single-family home lots, or it would be an amazing family compound.” The longtime owners said it was time to retire. MONTEREY - Camp Half Moon, a last remaining relic from Lake Buel’s pine-lined olden days of seasonal camps, social clubs and simple cottages, went on the market in June for $2.79 million.
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