Southern Exposure Summer Camp still has openings for enrollment
Published 9:52 am Saturday, May 31, 2025
Aidyn Jeffers (left) and Elias Carillo (right) tend to the vegetable garden at the Southern Exposure Summer Camp being run by the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation on Friday morning. (Ben Martin | The Vicksburg Post)
Campers aged four to eleven spent part of their day tending to a vegetable garden during the Southern Exposure Summer Camp run by the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation. There are still openings for campers to enroll. (From the left: Raine Grace Bennett, Aidyn Jeffers, Colton Tapp, Newel Sanders, Benjamin Doyle, Addi-Lane Jeffers, Clara Gonzalez, Cruz Gonzalez, and Elias Carillo)(Ben Martin | The Vicksburg Post)
Teacher Karen Biedenharn helps campers fill up their watering cans during a gardening session at the Southern Exposure Summer Camp being run by the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation on Friday morning. (Ben Martin | The Vicksburg Post)
Raine Grace Bennett (left) and Elias Carillo (right) help water a squash in the garden at the Southern Exposure Summer Camp being run by the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation on Friday. (Ben Martin | The Vicksburg Post)
Addi-Lane Jeffers (right) and Raine Grace Bennett (left) help water the garden at the Southern Exposure Summer Camp being run by the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation on Friday. (Ben Martin | The Vicksburg Post)
Camper Aidyn Jeffers worked on his gardening skills at the Southern Exposure Summer Camp being run by the Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation on Friday. (Ben Martin | The Vicksburg Post)
The Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation is currently operating its Southern Exposure Summer Camp. The day camp, for children ages four to eleven, is going on all summer long.
Karen Biedenharn is a teacher at the summer camp. She said that when the foundation’s team was putting together the camp, they looked back to the founding principles of the Sisters of Mercy, the group of nuns responsible for opening a school in the building that now houses the foundation.
“We kind of looked back at their mission statements before we started,” she said. “And then the other thing that we have to offer that is unique, because I went to school here and it changed me as a person, is the architecture in the space. A lot of kids go to anywhere, daycare, camp, whatever, and they’re spending a lot of hours in one place.”
Biedenharn said that every hour, the campers move to a different room or area at the historic facility.
Campers engage in a variety of activities, including gardening, art, music, manners lessons and traditional camp games.
There are still openings available for campers. Hours run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday during the summer. For a camp schedule and more information about how to enroll children, please contact the Southern Cultural Heritage Center business office at 601-631-2997.
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