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For 35 summers, teenagers ages 12-18 have built strong communities together on a beautiful central Pennsylvania farm.  Longacre Leadership Program brings together a diverse group of 90 people--students and staff--for 4 or 6 week sessions.  The community comes together very quickly because we work and play together in always changing groups.  Each community member experiences a jam-packed time, our days filled with projects, activities, and trips of our own choosing. 

Take your pick of morning activities:  learn to drive a tractor, construct the timber frame greenhouse, ride a horse, build sets for the play, move the sheep to a new pasture, serve food in a food bank, take inventory in our American chestnut orchard, or pick organic vegetables for our lunch.  The same goes for the afternoon but it's more playful:  go rock climbing, do stained glass, paint a mural, go swimming, play ultimate frisbee, bake a friend's birthday cake, shoot hoops, or bike the Gettysburg Battlefield.  There are dozens of choices each day.  We take care of ourselves and design our own summers here.

Life at Longacre means becoming part of a caring community.  That means balancing and incorporating acceptance and diversity, respect and honest communication, freedom and responsibility, work and play.

 

 

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