Great story!! Thank you for your help and support of our efforts!!
Anne Anderson

Thanks so much for the article on the Camp Maqua Lodge. Your piece, hopefully, will bring some campers out of the woodwork with their nostalgic memories of their fondest camping memories there! I enjoyed meeting you, Anne and Tommy and hope we will be seeing much more of each other as we research this popular YWCA camp!
Kathryn Baker

Wow! Reading your article was almost like being there!

I was a camper at Maqua in the 50's and worked there in the early 60's. I was Honor Camper (I think) in 1957 or so...We once got in trouble for hiking around the lake at night, but it was fun. Remember we had rifle class? We could even carry around our own hunting knoives. I loved canoeing especially bobbing the canoes. ONce when camp was over we took a three day canoe trip down Snake River. I grew up in Rochester and I think Maqua has given me my most enjoyable memories. - Diane in Virginia

I loved going to Maqua during the 40's for six years and was a Jr Counselor the last one. My two oldest girls also went and loved it but when my youngest girl and her brother attended the last year it was coed and a different experience. We learned so many different sports that I feel somewhat sorry for the kids today that go to camp and concentrate on one activity. I have been back several times when friends visit and appreciate that the residents are keeping Maqua alive!
Geraldine Folkert Prieskorn

Wonderful article! I am currently the Director at YWCA Camp Cavell in Lexington, Michigan and we are one of the very few overnight YWCA camps left in the country! It was so fun to ready your article because I have been here for 29 years and had never only a faint memory of reading about a Camp Maqua! I would love to learn more! Our camp belongs to the YWCA of Metropolitan Detroit and was first organized in 1914. Next year will be 100 years in camping for us. We would love to invite Maqua campers to join in on any of our celebrations!

Hi from Cincinnati, OH
Growing up in the Bay City area in the 1950-60ties I enjoyed spending several weeks, every summer at Camp Maqua. I would always go with a friend and have a great time. I have all of my photos from camp. My Mother even saved a few letters I wrote home..so funny.
My grandfather, Ronald E. Fischer, was a wonderful speaker and raised funds to build the original YMCA and Camp Iroquois. I remember the family spending time at the camp too when the campers were not there.

It is fun for me to see photos of Camp Maqua.