Alumni associations for summer camps.
An alumni association for your camp.
Colleges have them. Camps don't. Tumblehome gives a camp one place where its alumni can find each other again, keep the photos and trip logs where everyone can see them, and put names to the faces. No ads, no algorithm, nothing to scroll. Just the people who were there.
The scrapbook
Photos, recordings, and written memories from every year the camp has run. Each one is tied to the people, places, trips, and sessions it belongs to, so a person's page shows every photo they're in and a trip's page shows everyone who went.
The directory
Find the people you were at camp with. Search by year, by cabin, by program. Your name is all that joining shows. Everything else stays hidden until you decide otherwise.
The board
Reunions, trips, notes from the camp. Posted by people the camp has verified, shown in the order they were posted. No ads.
Nearby
If you're passing through a city, see which camp friends are there. You share your location only when you choose to, and you can turn it off any time.
The memory library
Built one photo at a time.
Take a picture of an old print with your phone and add it. Say who's in it and roughly when. Someone else adds which trip it was from. Someone else names the person in the stern. Nobody has to do all of it. That's how it gets done.
A working example
Look around a fictional camp.
Camp Pennington isn't real. The people, photos, and posts were made up so you can see what a camp's Tumblehome looks like after a few years of use. Walk through the directory, the scrapbook, and the board.
The person behind Tumblehome
Built by a camp person, for camp people.
My name is Sam Devine. I've spent the better part of my life around summer camp: camper, staff, and eventually a wilderness guide taking crews down big northern rivers, all the way to Hudson Bay. Camp gave me most of what I know about work, weather, and people, and I've spent twenty years watching those stories scatter: slides in attics, trip logs in a box in the garage, friendships dissolving into a Facebook group nobody loves.
Tumblehome is my answer. A quiet place for a camp community to keep its people and its history together: no algorithm, no ads, nobody selling your alumni to advertisers. I named it for the inward curve of a canoe's hull, the shape that makes a boat both strong and easy to paddle. That's the aim here too.
When I'm not building this, I'm building wanigans, the wooden trip boxes, by hand in my shop. Same instinct, different material: make something sturdy enough to carry what matters.
Sam Devine, founder
For camp directors
Bring Tumblehome to your camp.
Your alumni get a private place to find each other. The camp gets an archive of its own history that the alumni build themselves, and a contact list that stays current because people keep their own records. We take camps on one at a time. Tell us about yours and we'll write back.
Joining shares your name and nothing else. Your city, your email, your years, your photo stay hidden until you turn each one on.