Mary Kirchoff February 11, 2017 16:55:01 (EDT)

We are having a MWL reunion and would love to send the information to anyone on this board, just write me at kirchoffmary@gmail.com and I will put you on the email list we have so we can contact you for information on this one and any other happenings in MWL world. We are planning the reunion for... (more)

Harv Horowitz February 10, 2017 02:25:56 (EDT)

Hello..I don't know if this website is still active...if it is,could someone reply. I was a friend of Bob Hanna jr, and worked at Minne Wonka the first summer that the camp was purchased by his Mom and Dad. I have many fond memories of Dusty, Aunt Alice...remember counselors DeeDee Day, Martha... (more)

Joyce Anderson Buckner July 1, 2016 17:34:40 (EDT)

I loved being a counselor for two summers at Minne Wonka! '66 and '67! I was teaching swimming but remember the waterfront director was crazy and got fired. So I got her job. Also played taps every night on a bugle and to the colors in the morning at flag raising. I remember teaching Butch, the... (more)

Katie Burgess Noonan April 5, 2016 20:52:43 (EDT)

I think I was at MWL summer of 1970. Living at the south end of Puget Sound, Washington state. Anyone out there?

Alice Madura March 7, 2016 14:20:45 (EDT)

1959!!! Yikes. I found letters I wrote to my parents in 1959 when I was at camp at Minne-Wonka Lodge in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. They include my daily schedule of tennis, canoeing, archery, sailing etc.
Wish I could go to the camp again.

ELizabeth "Beth" Merena November 13, 2015 13:40:27 (EDT)

Like a few other people, I just bumped into this message board. I have extremely fond memories of MWL, but most exciting (and frustrating a little) is that I see a post here from May of 2014, from Jo Ann, the horseback riding teacher and she didn't leave her email contact. Jo Ann (and yes I... (more)

Kappy Riker August 11, 2015 17:51:56 (EDT)

I loved MWL,,, I attended for four summers, 69-72. I still sing the songs I learned there today. And, sang them to my daughter when she was young.....I remember two camp counselors, Katie Burgess from Picayune MI, and also Craig, from somewhere back east, I think. Boy, that water was cold!! Loved... (more)

Mollie Baldwin Ede (Dunn) July 17, 2015 07:53:34 (EDT)

Camp Minne Wonka Summers were the highlight of my childhood. I flew from SF Calif to join my cousins there for many Summers in the early 70's. I remember to this day how to tie many knots and put up a tent! I remember many of the songs I learned there and have shared with my kids. I remember... (more)

Chris Kragh April 15, 2015 08:12:01 (EDT)

Oh, wow, just came upon the site. I have pix! Who do I send them to? My mom was the cook for a year...and I always tell the story when she made liver for dinner, and wrapped all of them in reynolds wrap, so no one knew what was coming until they opened the package. We laugh about that even now. It... (more)

BJ Mason March 22, 2015 20:53:47 (EDT)

Found my 1963 yearbook...also 1961 yearbook. Sweater, scrapbook, and other yearbooks and wonderful memorabelia lost in basement flood...so sad. Was CIT with Craig Clark, Mary Belfer, Martha Steinman, Mary Heitman, Kate Niedner, and Helen Martin. Love to know where any of you are living!

Betty Mason Wells August 29, 2014 13:26:34 (EDT)

Saw my Red Pine friends had reunion this summer and decided to find site for Minne Wonka!! What memories I have of my many years...Pine Knot (1st cabin) all the way to Counselor in Training. It was a 2 month camp then. Lost my awards in basement flood, but have MANY photos. Attended from 55 on.... (more)

Emma Jean Maxwell Moulton August 18, 2014 16:28:03 (EDT)

I just found this site, and it has brought back such happy memories. I was music counselor '62-'63 and loved every minute of camp. Broke my 5th metatarsal on my right foot 2nd yr. going to the loo. Had to adjust my college senior organ recital...

cyncie Hadley August 8, 2014 15:01:03 (EDT)

I attended MWL in the mid 50s.
Does anyone remember the memorial in the woods with a view of the lake?
There was a cross in honor of someone and a circle of log benches around it.
Is it still there?
Who was the woman it honored?

Nicolette Webb Angieri August 4, 2014 17:18:35 (EDT)

Hello, former campers. I attended MWL in '65 and '66 as a 12 and 13 year-old. I remember a fellow camper by the name of Nancy Detweiler (sp?), another nicknamed Toogie, and a Susan with whom I was pretty good friends. There was a show that was put on one summer, a lurid melodrama in which I... (more)

Steve (webmaster) July 23, 2014 18:17:01 (EDT)

Click to see images of the Minne Wonka camp memory book/year book from 1972 that Sherri found at a library book sale in Cleveland.

sherri June 10, 2014 19:07:10 (EDT)

I found a Minne Wonka camp memory book/year book from 1972 at a library. Would anyone like it?

Jo Ann May 25, 2014 12:07:22 (EDT)

I taught riding in '65 and '66 and was going to visit Wisc. this fall, is the camp still in existence? Jo Ann

Kay Springer Miller April 6, 2014 17:02:01 (EDT)

What a wonderful site! I have many, many great memories of my summers at Minne Wonka. Are any of you contempories who might remember my cousin Nancy Jane Barnes (in 1930's) or my aunt Virginia Springer? I was there in the 1950's. Nancy Jane is in her 90's but sharp as a tack and would love to... (more)

Annie Davidson March 11, 2014 19:46:16 (EDT)

Seeing that picture of Linden Lodge with Tina and Sara and so many girls I remember sharing joy with... It brings back a lot of memories. I have to dig up those memory books the next time I go back to my parents' house.