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At the Swiss Allstar Basketball Camp children have the opportunity to meet top players from the NBA personally. The camp has already been visited by 3 “Most valuable Players” of the NBA (best players in the league) and other NBA Allstars.
- Building The Camp
- Basketball: The Bob Cousy Years
- Restoration Under Carl Wallman
- Inviting Guests to Share The Woods
- Passing The Torch to Graylag Nature Preserve
In 1946, Jacob Geib and sons Fred and Robert turned 500 acres of undeveloped woodland and the waterfront of Wild Goose Pond into a summer camp for boys. They named it after the European name for the wild goose, which, because it was gray and lagged behind other geese flying south in autumn, was called the Graylag. As the founders said in the origin...
In 1952, basketball legend Bob Cousy, of the Boston Celtics, became a partner in Camp Graylag. From that time, the camp specialized in basketball and became closely identified with Cousy’s athletic gifts and sportsmanship. Camp Graylag at that time had the largest outdoor floodlit courts in New England and attracted many great players and coaches a...
In 1995, after 25 years raising Angus cattle in neighboring Northwood, NH, Carl Wallmanbought a 50-acre parcel of beautiful woodlands central to the former Camp Graylag. Carl was born and raised in New York City. His parents had immigrated to New York as young people, leaving Russia and Poland, where they were forbidden to own land, so land ownersh...
Over time, he realized that he wanted other people to be able to enjoy the natural woodlands and waters of Graylag and started to renovate the former cabins into comfortable, rustic vacation cottages, which could be rented to guests. Graylag Cabins opened in the summer of 2005. For Carl, it was wonderful to see that the peace and beauty of these hi...
Carl passed away in February 2020. We will always be grateful for the determination with which Carl worked in the last months of his life, endowing Graylag with both a clear mission for moving forward and the means to make that mission real. In November 2019, Graylag Cabins became Graylag Nature Preserve, a public 501(c)(3) non-profit.
Sep 22, 2017 · Born in the North View section of Clarskburg, West Virginia, Wilson went to Kelly Miller High School in Clarksburg (a "colored" school until the 1956 integration.) After playing at WVSU, he played a year for the Globetrotters before playing with the Milwaukee Hawks,but his NBA career ended with a knee injury.
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Aug 27, 2014 · West Virginia State University Hall of Fame basketball great Robert "Bob" Wilson passed away recently of natural causes at age 88. The Clarksburg native was co-captain of the school's undefeated 1947-48 team and went on to play professionally in the NBA and for the Harlem Globetrotters.
On a dark, cold night in a top-secret lab in Helsinki, Wilson engineers and scientists from SportIQ walk onto a basketball court. With them, they carry a basketball that looks like any other, except for one piece of duct tape.
Jan 27, 2021 · Wilson attended the former Kelly Miller High School during the early 1940s, played basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters, and most importantly, was one of the very first African-Americans to break the NBA color barrier.
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Dec 20, 2013 · In addition to that I've been involved with the Crossroads Basketball Camp in Illinois. Each summer I hold a basketball camp where we bring in lots of kids that have a lot of talent but not the expenses.
