FINALLY! After nearly a year of researching, planning and building- THE WANDAWEGA PROVISIONS STORE is officially open for business. View the online catalog HERE – and – Visit the website HERE WHAT ITS ABOUT: Sometimes Simple is Best: The Camp Wandawega Provisions Store For close to 90 years, the folks who ran the kitchen at Wandawega lake resort relied on the local farmers, markets, growers and butchers to keep the restaurant pantry stocked. Many of them family-owned businesses, run by first-generation German, Swiss, Austrian, Italian immigrants bringing their craft with them from their homeland. Generations of the same families passing down their recipes and skills to their children. Artisinal…
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Some of you might be aware that we have our Camp Wandawega store. We have some pretty cool camp accessories, books and game gear! Below are a few of my favorite items that we have right now. It’s time to gear up and get ready for the warmer days, because they are on their way. It’s not camp with out a whistle. Use it for when you get lost on those trails, or to play your favorite relay race! Wandawega maple syrup. This is delicious and perfect morning, noon and night. It’s so good you could drink it right out…
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from their editors: I saw Wes Anderson’s impeccably set-designed Moonrise Kingdom over the weekend, so the new camp shop that just opened at Wandawega seems particularly on-time. Retro canteens, Boyscout-issue axes and antique rackets! Slingshots! Wooden arrows! Guests at Camp Wandawega ask so regularly where they can find similar camp-style goods (if you’ve seen the place, then you understand) that David and Tereasa decided to open a little shop tucked inside the lodge. The look is pure Wisconsin camp, and you can pick up many of the throwback items that make this place so special. They feature goods that have…
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‘own a slice of an old-school Wisconsin retreat’ fun slideshow + lovely story about WANDAWEGACAMPSTORE.COMthank, Amalie!! check out the whole story HERE When guests at Surratt’s Camp Wandawega in Elkhorn, Wisconsin–where she and her husband host weekends for their artsy friends and rent the picturesque spot out for weddings and photo shoots–began to ask how to buy some of the vintage-chic gear that Surratt lends to campers on-site, she decided to open the new Wandawega Camp Store to fill their requests. As explained by the camp store website, the merchandise comprises “simple tools and toys to remind us of simple…
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yay! super excited to be sharing a space with our friend MAX of allplaidout & Buckshot Sonnys fame at this sunday Dose market! We’ll be hawking our camp gear from the new Wandawega Camp Store. hope to see ya’ll, there! some info on this amazing collective of chicago vendors: “A beautiful setting full of happy people” – Penny Pollack, Dining Editor, Chicago Magazine Dose is a year-round market featuring the finest selection of vendors under one roof: the modern, lofted halls of the River East Art Center. Join us once a month to celebrate Chicago’s most dynamic gathering of innovative…
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You mentally shopped your way through Moonrise Kingdom.Make your house look like a Wes Anderson-designed set at the Wandawega Camp Store.Founders Tereasa Surratt and David Hernandez (Ogilvy creative director and managing director, respectively) believe nostalgia is an essential part of a good life. The couple proves that theory at Camp Wandawega, their brick-and-mortar throwback retreat in Elkhorn, Wisconsin (yes, you can stay there; yes, there is a tree house).The new online shop lets you bring bits of camp home. Tepee-, moccasin-, and tree swing-making kits take you back to craft hour. Stock up on camping gear (canteens, scoutmaster axes, classic…
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THE WANDAWEGA CAMP STORE features 5 product categories: CAMP gear. everything you need to rough it. MAKE projects boyscouts having been making for a century. PLAY tools, games, equipment for camp recreation. READ reprints of vintage books. favorite camp reads and of course the Wandawega books. WEAR lodge, cabin, camp, country wearable camp style. we sell cane fishing poles. (the old school type that snap together in three pcs, with aluminum detail, dark stain and clear coat finish) we have a new slingshot- this one is way more sturdy. so yes, while you can probably take out a woodchuck with…
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because we love to shoot + share the work in progress part of everything… heres the souvenir-shop-in-the-making that we spent saturday assembling! it will be housed in the old lodge (circa 1922- the entrance is the chapel. which is so perfectly ironic, given the lodge’s history of being a speakeasy and brothel. here are a few work in progress shots. we started throwing it together saturday afternoon. thanks to our girl angela finney hoffman at post27 store for the fab display case & mirror! things will continue to evolve as we go… but its a good start for a…
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WANDAWEGACAMPSTORE.COM yay! it’s alive and kicking! check out the catalog visit the store and if you are really into camping schtick, stop by the campstyle site some examples from the inventory book (downloadable + viewable here) THE CAMP WANDAWEGA STORY Prohibition-era speakeasy. Brothel. Church retreat. Summercamp.The culmination of 10 decades of history. Sou·ve·nir/Noun: A thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event. SYNONYMS: keepsake – remembrance – memento – token – memory. Camp Wandawega has a storied past serving as everything from a brothel to speakeasy, supperclub to summercamp. Each era left a bit of…
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THE WANDAWEGA CAMP STORE features 5 product categories: CAMP gear. everything you need to rough it. MAKE projects boyscouts having been making for a century.PLAY tools, games, equipment for camp recreation.READ reprints of vintage books. favorite camp reads and of course the Wandawega books. WEAR lodge, cabin, camp, country wearable camp style.
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