Camp Constitution’s Annual Report for 2023

Published January 2, 2024 | By Hal Shurtleff

Camp Constitution in the News:

We continue to be mentioned in the media as local Christian’s petition to have the Chrisitan or Pro-Life flags fly on town or city halls. 1819 News in Alabama as Christian activists interviewed us are in the process of having Montgomery declare Christian Heritage Month and have the Christian fly in front of City Hall for a month:

https://1819news.com/news/item/montgomery-city-council-delays-american-christian-heritage-month-resolution-again

Christians in Torrington, CT raised the Christian flag on their city hall with over two hundred people including the mayor on hand:

And in Billerica, MA, Deedee Clark Dorrington and members of her group Fly the Pro-Life Flag with the help from our friends at the Massachusetts Family Institute were able to get the town selectmen vote 4-1 in favor of flying the Pro-Life flag for two weeks in October: MFI’s Advocacy Leads Billerica to Raise Pro-Life Flag on Town Property – MFI | Massachusetts Family Institute (mafamily.org)

The Claremont, NH Eagle Tribute did a story on our annual family camp: https://www.eagletimes.com/news/camp-takes-on-swimming-and-the-bill-of-rights/article_e3f74b08-0d14-545d-b9a0-876343786082.html The reporter asked us how we teach the Constitution to five year olds, we sent him a link to this video of our Junior Campers led by Mrs. Edith Craft singing a song about the Constitution https://youtu.be/_Tw6Lz2QoOk?si=wVvNeZ2EayAtzSiX

We received some national media attention from NBC and Fox News with the appearance of presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami at our annual family camp.

Special Projects:

We partnered with the Massachusetts based Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund in a project to raise the Pro-Life flag in towns and cities across the state. We had a float in the annual Old Home Week Parade in Alton, NH, and we presented their salute to America event held at Alton Bay. We had info tables at numerous events including the Crown of Maine Balloon Festival, the Mid-Atlantic Reformation Society’s Future of Christendom forum, the National Heritage, and the Mass HOPE homeschool convention where we also conducted a workshop on the Sam Blumenfeld Archive. We co-sponsored a Patriot Day Camp in Maine led by Mrs. Jessica Whitworth.

In April, Camp Constitution donated 1,500 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Alton-Barnstead, NH School District, and in January, we donated 1,100 copies to the Laconia Junior and High School, Laconia, NH Junior High, and High Schools. This has opened up the doors to other donations to schools in the region.

We hosted a group of homeschoolers at the Lane House for a field trip overnight to take in the Midnight Night Ride and Battle of Lexington Reenactments.

We hosted the Hillside College’s Constitutional Study Course in Alton, NH and Lebanon, ME.

Camp Constitution Media:

We videotaped all of the classes and some of the activity at our annual family camp and at our second weekend retreat the Lexington Reenactment, Alton, NH’s Memorial Day Parade, speeches as our 3^rd Annual Memorial Day Weekend Barbecue in Lexington, the classes and activities at our annual family camp, and speeches of our speakers Julie Wilkinson, Pastor William Levi, and Charl van Wyk.

YouTube, Rumble Channels and Bitchute Channels

Since we started our YouTube channel, we have received 1.6 million views. While we used to receive 65,000 views per month until we were demonetized, and YouTube has taken down some of our videos due to its content, we still managed to have 100,000 thousand views on our YouTube Channel this year. We have 8,000 subscribers overall. We have been downloading some of our videos from YouTube expecting to have our channel deleted and uploading them to Rumble. Our Rumble channel has received 6,388 views this year with seven likes, and our Bitchute channel has 2,3126 views this year.

Camp Constitution Press: We are finally getting the Planned Parenthood book published. It is an the printer awaiting a final edit. Thanks to Bill and Barbara McNally, who edited a draft of Sam Blumenfeld’s from the 1960s. we will also soon be publishing Sam’s “Did the KGB Kill Kennedy? And, thanks to the PDF efforts of our camp newspaper editor Mark Affeck, we reprinted “Let’s Learn About Money.”

The Sam Blumenfeld Archive:

• 713,016 Hits

• 3,779 Alpha Phonics Workbooks

• 2,921 Alpha Phonics Manuals

• 9,000 Is Public Education Necessary Book

• 4,550 Marlow-Shakespeare Book

• 1,039 Crimes of the Educators

• About 300 Online Alpha Phonics Lesson 1

• About 850 Phonics Intro Video

Our friend Godknows Matizirofa principal of Nottingham School in Harare, Zimbabwe, is building a new school and will name it in honor of Sam Blumenfeld. We have been donating copies of Sam’s Alpha Phonics to the school. We also donated a case of “Alpha-Phonics” to the National Black Home Educators.

If you haven’t already, please visit and subscribe to the archives: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/

Camp Constitution Radio on Podomatic:
8,000 Downloads
1,200 Plays

And, we remain in Top Ten for the “Conservative-Right Category. Please visit and follow: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal We recently interview Liz producer of “The Fall of Minneapolis” and uploaded close to 80 speeches and lectures from Gary Allen, Alan Stang, Charlie Smith, Ed Griffrin, Julia Brown and others.

Facebook Page:

We continue to average fifty likes per month. We also admin about eight groups including Friend of the Constitution in ME, NH, MA, CT, RI. PA, VT, and Stop the Constitutional Convention.

Speaker’s Bureau:

We had over sixty speaking engagements in 2023. We recently held six engagements for Charl van Wyk author of Shooting Back in MA, NH, and ME. In September, we spoke to the Mid Atlantic Reformation Society, and we were one of the featured speakers at the Norfolk County (MA) Second Amendment Rally and Constitutional Day Celebration. We spoke at the Michigan Republican Party’s Mackinac Island event where we shared a podium with the likes of Alan Keyes and Jim Caviezel. We had speaking engagements in Maine including being the featured speaker at the Homeschoolers of Maine Annual State House Day, and presentations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Loudon, NH. We hosted four engagements for Juli Wilkinson who played the abortion nurse in the movie Unplanned. And we hosted Mrs. Bau Chau Kelly at the Lane House. Mrs. Kelly described life in Communist Vietnam.

Camp Constitution’s Website:

• 31,000 Views

• 185 Blog Articles

• New Downloads: “How to Win A Gunfight Even if You Are Not a Good Shot” and Coloring Book “Learn About Money

• Two New Sponsors https://www.campconstitution.net

Camp Constitution Book Sales:

Amazon book sales were down from 2022 but I think that it is a trend.

We have raised close to $4,000 from donated books from our Amazon, Facebook page, and on-line bookstore. https://campconstitution.net/shop/

Article V Convention:

We worked with legislatures to have an Article V rescission resolution introduced in the New Hampshire House in 2024. Despite the onslaught of Article V resolutions all over the U.S. not a single one passed. We helped defeat two Article V resolutions in New Hampshire, several in Maine, and authored articles on the subject in on-line and print media and participated in a national conference call hosted by Tamara Scott who hosts a show on Frank Speech. One article we published was an expose on the leadership of the Convention of States. https://granitegrok.com/mg_lakesregion/2023/04/poisoning-the-well-is-not-working-in-new-hampshire-but-we-cant-help-ourselves We worked with legislatures to have an Article V rescission resolution introduced in the New Hampshire House in 2024.

Radio and Cable TV:

We were a first time guest on several radio shows including the Chris Arn Show based in Carliyle, PA, and returned to the the Duke Pesta Show: https://www.freedomproject.com/2023/05/30/dds53023/ and earlier in the year, we were guests on “Chattin with Janine: a popular Cable TV Show hosted by NH State Rep and long-tine friend Janine Notter. And appeared as a guest on Tamara Scott’s show on Frank Speech, https://frankspeech.com/video/tamara-scott-show-joined-hal-shurtleff-camp-constitution and an appearance on the Ed Martin Radio Show which is nationally syndicated: https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/wynk-back-to-basics-with-hal-shurtleff/ And, we had an appearance on the Chris McCarthy Show in New Bedford, MA generating a speaking engagement in January.

Camp Constitution Ladies Group:

The Third Annual Spring Fling took place May 5-7 at the Singing Hills Christian Camp. Speakers include Valerie McDonnell, the youngest elected official in the United States and former abortion nurse turned Pro-Life activist Julie Wilkinson. Julie played a role in the movie “Unplanned.”

Julie Wilkinson Valerie McDonnell

Our friend and Camp Constitution camp parent Steve Wanager has relocated to Indiana and donated one of his replica cannons to Camp Constitution. We are now the proud owners of a replica Revolutionary War howitzer. Contrary to the view of Mr. Biden, the 2^nd Amendment does not prevent us from owning a cannon.

Camp Constitution’s 15^th Annual Family Camp

We had another successful family camp with a full house, and two new guest instructors: author and documentary producer Vince Ellison, and, for the first time in our history, a presidential candidate: Vivek Ramaswamy. Mr. Ramaswamy’s appearance at our camp brought reporters from Fox News, ABC and NBC.

(Vivek Ramaswamy speaking at our 2023 camp

Second Annual Family Retreat:

We help our 2^nd Annual Weekend Family Retreat which ran from Friday September 29 to Sunday October 1. At Camp Sentinel in Tuftonboro, NH. Guest instructors were Jim Perloff and former Gubernatorial candidate Karen Testerman. Returning instructors included Catherine White, and Rev. Steve Craft. Jessica Whitworth conducted the program for the junior campers.