<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
History of Mountain Nature Camp
Alonzo Beecher Brooks served as Oglebay Institute's naturalist from 1927 to 1944. His most outstanding achievement was the establishment of the Oglebay Nature Leaders Training School, the first camping program of its kind in the world and the pattern of many to follow.
1929 Mountain Nature Camp Photo: A.B. Brooks
For fifteen years, A.B. Brooks attracted scores of leaders from various parts of the country to his program. They traveled to Wheeling, WV to learn the skills necessary to interpret nature and teach others. Then, they would travel to the West Virginia Mountains to explore the unique and special Appalachian Highlands that Brooks loved.
In addition, he guided more than 50,000 people over the Oglebay nature trails. The nature interpretation and education program created at Oglebay was one of the first comprehensive programs in the country.
Hill Hunger
by Lillian Mayfield Roberts
I think that something in the hill child dies
when he is taken to the level lands;
A man bred by the ocean understands,
and he will tell you that his sick heart sighs
For hiss of surf and all his being cries
for roar of waves and spray upon his hands.
Ever beneath his weary feet the sands,
ever a sail before his searching eyes.
And so, I think the hill child always sees
that broken line inked in against the skies,
Where saffron sunset drops to meet the trees
upon the hilltop and the nighthawk flies,
And when his mind cannot recapture these
I think that something in the hill child dies.
Click here to download the 2011 Mountain Nature Camp brochure.
Click here to download the 2011 Mountain Nature Camp registration form.
Schrader Environmental Education Center at Oglebay Resort and Conference Center
Wheeling, West Virginia 26003 | 304-242-6855
