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Pedal to the Metal
Horse Show, Big Games, Indian Games in full swing
Mini MacCready Horse Show
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The Riding Staff demonstrates what the campers will do, only on horses.
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WILLSBORO, NY -- The Mini MacCready Horse Show took place on Saturday and helped prepare the riders of Pok-O-MacCready for the numerous horse shows they will attend
over the course of the summer.
The show was informal in nature, and focused on the fun of being at an equestrian competition. Fundamental skills such as mounting
and dismounting were emphasized, with older campers helping the less experienced riders.
The first larger horse show Pok-O will attend will be at Willow Hill in Keeseville, NY, on 11 July. After one year away, the riders of
Camp MacCready will return to the mid-level competition of Willow Hill, where they will apply the lessons learned at the Mini MacCready to judged equestrian competition.
Revolutionary War Game
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The British Red Coats gather at Intermediate Point to discuss the rules and regulations of the “Rev War.”
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WILLSBORO, NY -- Pok-O-MacCready’s annual Revolutionary War Game, a reenactement of America’s struggle for independece, took place on Sunday, July 4.
The contest, which occurred on the warmest day of the summer, was widely held as the best version of the game played at Pok-O in recent memory.
The game takes place at Camp Pok-O-Moonshine, in and around the boys’s cabins and Robinson Dining Hall. The entire camp is broken into two teams: American and
British, each of which have four historically named territories on the boys’ camp grounds. The British cities are New York, Philadelphia, Concord,
and the capital Boston. The Americans begin each round in the cities of Fort stanwick, Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and capital Charleston.
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An American soldier flees with the flag of the British territory of Concord, Massachusetts. The city would change hands often.
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Campers must defend their own cities, while trying to invade and capture the cities of the opposite side. Prinsoners are taken either through the use of
“flourhawks” thrown through the air outside the cities, or through the “two-hand touch” rule in the cities.
A victor is chosen based on points received for capturing and holding cities, capturing prisoners, and sinking enemy frigates on Long Pond.
On Sunday’s version of the game, the British fought valiantly and nearly captured every American city at one point. The American’s, however, were victorious, and
the United States of America were born again in the world of Pok-O-MacCready.
Great Indian Track Meet
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Mohawk Blake Barker is the “wheel” part of the Wheelbarrow Race at teh Track Meet.
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WILLSBORO, NY -- Indian Games also kicked off officially on Monday after a rain delay the previous Thursday as the boys competed in the Great Indian
Track meet on the MacCready Fields.
At the track meet, events included the Cracker Whistle and Pie Slam, the Great Shoe Tangle, Dragon Race, Spoon and Egg Relay, and Keeseville Fire Brigade. All
braves competed valiantly, and leaders on each tribe began to emerge as Thursday’s Tribal Elections approach.
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Ari-al Raeburn and Peter Rupolo performing the Mohawk cheer Monday.
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Teamwork and sportsmanship, as always, were paramount at the Track Meet, and as tribes performed their cheers, creativity was also rewarded.
History states that the tribe that wins the Track Meet rarely wins all of Indian Games, but the Seneca victory from Monday means that the tribe that has dominated
Indian Games over the course of the last decade has taken its first step toward continuing the dynasty.
Coming up in the next few days: Intercamp Baseball results, Tribal Elections, and reports from the weekend’s
round of overnights.
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Emily Perley leads Natalie Schade on her first-ever trot during the Mini-MacCready.
Isabel Zahn displays her riding experience with impecable posture during the Mini MacCready Horse Show.
General George Washington, mounted on a noble steed, and wife Martha Washington.
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