6/29/09 – The Sawbill summer crew is here. We gathered in front of the outfitter for the annual crew photo the other day. Sixteen of us are working day to day now, and Jim and Rachel Ter Beest, campground hosts, will soon arrive from Nebraska. Returning crew members who showed up since the last personnel update are Caitlin Coomes, who is on her way to law school this fall at St. Thomas, in Minneapolis; Ellyn Phearman, who is between semesters at Luther College, in Decorah, Iowa; Tess Dornfeld, who this fall begins her senior year at Carleton College, in Northfield, Minn.; Marc Levoir, who is going to be a junior at Bemidji State University in north central Minnesota this fall; and Kari Anderson-Hermann, who has returned to the north country for another summer after spending the last year and a half traveling in New Zealand and working at a marine biology camp in Florida. Welcome back, gang. Looking forward to a stellar summer. – Lee

Homer, Sawbill’s golden retriever, presides over his ninth crew photo.