WE NEED YOU CCAA MEMBERS!!!  It is almost time for camp to start once again, and the CCAA is sponsoring a work weekend JUNE 4-6 where we will help get camp ready for this summer.  You can help in multiple ways:  attending the work weekend AND by clicking on the store tab here on chancoonce.com and making a $25 donation towards the supplies we need to get the last several years of tea papers mounted and hung on the walls of the dining hall!  This is one of the many projects we will be tackling during the work weekend.  Other tasks will include waterfront cleanup/tree continue reading »

So, I was going to write this entry last week, and had I, it would have been a sweeping dramatic piece of prose that may, or may not, have bordered on the melodramatic. It quite possibly would have flirted with melodramatic. It most certainly would have at the very least sent melodramatic an anonymous shot from across the room, even if it never found the courage to actually ask it out on a date. In any case, I decided to let some time drift under the bridge before typing, and we may never know whether or not it was the right decision.  continue reading »

Well, I haven’t dropped any cookies in my trashcan this evening, and I loathe following Tater’s talent in any sort of writing endeavor, but I am compelled to put down some thoughts for the Chanco Once blog. I have found myself thinking a lot about Chanco lately… continue reading »

I have the privilege and the honor to be the first person inducted into the Order of Chanco. Check it out. That’s my signature in its adolescent scrawl on the handcrafted tea-stained fake parchment paper hanging in the back corner of the current dining hall. Now my kids (who are very tired of hearing his story by the way) tell me that it is so long ago that I am now the ” Ancient Order of Chanco” as opposed to the younger members of the “Old Order of Chanco or the “Order of Chanco.” How did that happen? Did we get segmented by decades??  continue reading »