(Last Updated – July 10, 2025)
Various owners of the Camp Sequoyah property have welcomed alumni back for camper and staff reunions on the property. These gatherings began in 1999 and happen every couple of years. We have been able to watch the decline and the renovation of camp over the years, and have been fortunate to continue sharing in the legacy and brotherhood of such a special place.
Click on the links below…You can watch a changing forest with many fewer hemlocks, cabins no longer standing, but…amazing preservation efforts to the core camp buildings. There is still a profound sense of place to the Sequoyah property.
Walt Kuentzel tells of the discovery and recovery of the Camp Sequoyah archive of correspondences, camper and staff files, program plans, and financial documents from the 1920s through the 1960s. He then tells the story from those archives about how Chief Johnson almost lost Camp Sequoyah during the Great Depression, and how a camp director colleague from Tennessee – Col. L. L. Rice – became a half-owner of Sequoyah and saw Chief through the hard times.