Julia Roberts?!
[via USAToday]: “My uncle owned a camp in Minnesota, a girls’ camp that’s still up and running called Camp Birchwood. All the cool things I know how to do, I learned how to do at camp,” the Oscar winner revealed. Like what? “Carry a canoe on my back for miles and miles. That’s kind of cool,” she said.
If we can claim Frances Ethel Gumm as one of our own (and she left the state when she was 4), why can’t we claim someone who spent summers here with family?
Btw, today is Frances’ birthday, dontchaknow? She would’ve been 87.
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10:57 am
From the great “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” (after sucking a bullet out of Steve Martin’s arm)
Rachael Ward: It should feel better now.
Steve Martin: Where’d you learn that?
Ward: At camp.
Martin: You learned that at girls’ camp?
Ward: “It’s really for snakebite, but I find it works for everything.”
1:31 pm
Camp Birchwood is owned by the family of a friend of mine (Julia’s uncle). Liz Phair also went to this camp, as noted in “Chopsticks”.
1:36 pm
So, we can also claim Liz Phair? Sweet!
9:55 pm
As a hockey fan stuck in Pittsburgh I’ve been claiming Sidney Crosby and Jordan Staal for the last couple of years. Crosby based on his year at Shattuck and Staal based on his night in the Grand Marais jail.
12:48 pm
A friend attended the camp for several years with Emma Roberts (Julia’s niece). From an interview:
The sharp, articulate Roberts visited the Twin Cities last week, stopping at the Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis to chat about “Nancy Drew,” which opens Friday. She plays the teenage sleuth who has been a popular literary character for six decades. It was a chilly, rainy day – not a favorite of the California resident. But it was not the first summer chill she has experienced in Minnesota.
“I used to go to Camp Birchwood, a couple hours from here. My cousins own it,” says Roberts, who spent the bulk of five summers at the girls-only camp, picking up a love of sailing and tennis in the process. Which is why Minnesota weather, along with the pronunciation of “Brainerd” and “Bemidji,” is a snap for her.
http://emma-on-web.piczo.com/?g=43223573&cr=6