Boston YMCA Camps

Overview At its end of the Camp Year 2018 planning retreat, the Sandy Island Camp Committee (SICC) reviewed survey input from Campers, Sandy Island Management reports and their personal [...]

GRAINS OF SANDY JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2018 Sandy Island Gremlins Become Staff Members Did you know that there were Gremlins at Sandy Island?  No, our camp has not been visited by mythological [...]

Super-Volunteer Josef Brozek Talks About Gratitude, Volunteering and “Retired Guys & Gals Week” The week following Labor Day Weekend is known as “Retired Guys & Gals Week” at [...]

While Sandy campers choose to participate in a variety of activities during their camp week, there is one place where every one of us is sure to gather – the Dining Hall.  For many years [...]

Did you know we have a layer of (fairly modern) history UNDER the surface of Sandy Island? We all know about the legendary garbage dump that once existed behind the Shop. Recently Carla Lafleur [...]

by Betsy McLaughlin, Mary Ellen Dooher and Patty Dowler (Title based on a line from a song Bill Minahan wrote about Sandy Island.) The Featured Image above shows Marie Minahan aboard the Sophie [...]

At Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections, Dana Bronson, Daniel Lavoie and Michelle Romero hold a photocopy of a newspaper article describing the 1938 De Turk-Mount Washington [...]