Blue Ridge Discovery – No Experience Necessary
Soon after my wife and I were married in 1993, one of the first things that we did together was attend the “Naturalist Weekend” at Wildacres Reteat near Little Switzerland on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Imagine a weekend nature learning camp for adults and children where adults could be a child again? We were devotees for several years and life got busy and we ceased going.
Last year the Parkway Foundation had its own learning camp with it’s Lodging and Learning Program at the Mt. Pisgah Inn. Our first year success gained us a reputation and soon we were receiving a call from Phil Blumenthal (Blumenthal Foundation) and Mike House, general manager of Wildacres. Would you like to join in a partnership with Discovery Place to make this something bigger?
Saying “yes” was easy and we learned early in our covenversations with the Discovery Place staff – John Mackay, Robert Corbin, Mary Bures, Karen McCall, Lisa Hoffman – that there ideals were as lofty as ours.
What has been assembled is an experience where every moment will be connected to the next and an agenda that is facilitated by an overly competent staff.
I am so proud of what this weekend will be that I am making sure that my elderly parents will be there, too, to be kids again.
