SHEHAQUA FAMILY NEWS

Fee Increase After June 30

This Sunday, June 30, is the last day for paying for the discounted fee for Shehaqua Family Camp. Mailed checks need to be postmarked by July 1 to qualify for the discount; you can find the mailing address here. Email the registrar about any questions at [email address redacted].

Tentative Schedule for the Intentional Community workshop

9:00 – 10:30 am
Three aspects of a healthy, thriving community: (1) "community glue," (2) good process & communication skills, (3) effective project management. Benefiting and influence all three: Governance. Difference between governance and decision-making. Preventing "structural conflict." The "Visionary/Idealistic — Community Experience" Scale.

10:30 – 10:45 – break

10:45 – 11:00 am
Ways communities own land together. Kinds of communities, including co-housing. Different ways communities finance properties: (1) owner-financed, (2) private loans from members, (3) private loans from friends & families, (4) one or two members buy property and serve as "bank" until paid off, (5) bank loan/mortgages, (6) Revolving Loan Fund.

12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 pm
Overview: No specific legal entities just for intentional communities. Legal entities (from businesses or real estate law) for co-owning property. (Not tenants in common or joint tenants.) Housing co-ops/land co-ops, LLCs, Homeowners Associations/Condo Associations, 501©3 nonprofits (not recommended for land ownership), non-exempt nonprofits. Membership flexibility, bank loan potential, and tax consequences for each. Examples of communities that use two or more legal entities together to meet their specific needs.

2:30 – 2:50 break

2:50 – 3:50 pm
Vision, mission, and aim for a community. Governance methods with a built-in decision-making method: Sociocracy, Holacracy. Why I recommend Sociocracy. Resources for learning more. Decision-making methods only: Difference between the consensus process and the consensus decision rule. Why I no longer recommend consensus as it's usually practised in intentional communities (consensus with unanimity, consensus with no recourse if someone blocks.) Why I recommend the N St. Consensus Method instead. Resources for learning more.

3:50- 4:10 break

4:10 – 5:30 pm
Membership processes. Founders' Perks. Anything else workshop participants would like to talk about. Workshop closing and evaluation.

How did "Shehaqua" get its Name?

The sound of "Shehaqua" might lead you to think that it's a Native American name, just like Susquehanna, or Shenandoah, or Pocono. But we recently learned from the park rangers that Camp Shehaqua was named for three towns of the Anthracite Council Girl Scouts: Shenandoah, Hazleton, Tamaqua. Two of these towns—Shenandoah and Tamaqua—do have American Indian names, however, so the name Shehaqua is at least Native American influenced. (And yes, Shenandoah is the name of a town in Pennsylvania, even though the Shenandoah River does not flow through the state.)

American Indians used to live in the area where we now hold our Shehaqua family camps. When Pennsylvania was settled, the Lenni Lenape, named by the Europeans the "Delaware," held the territory that would eventually become Hickory Run State Park. The area was also claimed at one point by the Susquehannock Indians and later by the Iroquois Nation.

The camp office of Camp Shehaqua in 1939.

Camp Shehaqua and Camp Daddy Allen were built in the mid-30s as part of the New Deal public works project to give jobs to unemployed workers. The land had been acquired by the National Park Service to develop parks for organized camping and picnicking. The two camps were created to house youth groups. The Girls Scouts and the Easter Seals Society were some of the steadiest campers. In 1945 Hickory Run State Park was transferred to the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters.

How did Camp Daddy Allen get its name? Find out, and read more more about the history of Hickory Run State Park, here:
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/hickoryrun/hickoryrun-history/index.htm

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