Girl Scout Great Escape | Escapes Planned Here

Camp Wabasso

Bradford/Sutton, New Hampshire

Great Escape began in 1982 as a thank-you for Girl Scout volunteers and has evolved into a weekend of opportunities — to renew old friendships, make new friends, relax or enjoy a workshop, eat well, and spend a lovely autumn weekend in New Hampshire.

All Girl Scout adults and graduating high school seniors are welcome! Take a look at this site and our blog, get excited, submit your registration form*, and send your payment so that you can join us in the fun!

Check out our blog at www.gsgreatescaper.blogspot.com
Photos and stories from previous Great Escapes are available on the blog.

GREAT ESCAPE BOOK CLUB 2020

After the 2019 book club session, participants asked for more books about inspiring women! Our female Supreme Court justices certainly fit the ‘exceptional women’ bill – after all, there have been only four in about 230 years, and three of them are still on the court!

There is not, however. one book about all four so, we invite everyone to choose one or more books, articles or even podcasst about one or more of these women. Then we will discuss each woman and compare and contrast their careers, educations, backgrounds and legal philosophies! Julie and I are very excited about this. We have prepared a reading list to start you off. By the way, we are including some books for children and young adults so that you can bring this back to your troops if that’s your thing.

Reading List

First: Sandra Day O’Connor – Evan Thomas

The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice, by Sandra Day O’Connor, Craig Joyce

Lazy B: Growing Up in a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, by Sandra Day O’Connor, H, Alan Day

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, by Linda R. Hirshman

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon, et. al.

My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor

Elena Kagan: A Biography, by Meg Greene

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, by Debbie Levy

Who Is Sonia Sotomayor? by Megan Stine

New Yorker Magazine article: Is the Supreme Court’s Fate in Elena Kagan’s Hands?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/is-the-supreme-courts-fate-in-elena-kagans-hands

Podcast: The Citizen’s Guide to the Supreme Court (available from I Heart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. Never let it be said that the Great Escapers are set in their ways.)

Selfie Scavenger Hunt

Take a selfie:

Eating dessert
Inside a tent or a cabin
With the Great Escape banner at the Dining Hall
Behind a tree
With a new friend
Holding a pine cone
Pointing to something orange
Helping someone
With the auction baskets
With a committee member
Of You Wearing a Great Escape shirt/vest/jacket
With someone wearing a GE patch
With water in the background
On a hike
With a flashlight shining under your face
With your reflection
Doing your kaper
Singing or playing an instrument
In a canoe
Outside Christa’s House
At the swimming beach
With the sign for your tent/lodge site
Drinking from your Great Escape cup
In your cosy cot
With an archery bow or target or with a hatchet
With something you made in a workshop

Upload/ post your selfies to Instagram or Facebook with #gsgreatescape

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