Author: John Nicholas GlasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Tamarack Farm Camp
Author: John Nicholas GlaseThe Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Author: Emily K. AbelPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978836651
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. Campers and staff took pride in the special ruggedness of the surrounding environment, and delighted in the exceptional rigor of the camping trips and the work projects. Importantly, the Farm & Wilderness camps were some of the first private camps to become racially integrated.The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century traces these camps, both unique and emblematic of American youth culture of the twentieth century, from their establishment in the late 1930s to the end of the twentieth century. Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson explore how ideals considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be reconfigured by the camps to respond to shifts in culture and society as well as to new understandings of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual identity. To illustrate this change, the authors draw on over forty interviews with former campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book tells a story of progressive ideals, crises of leadership, childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential American summer camp.
Parents' Guide to Accredited Camps
Author: New York Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Horse Camp
Author: Nicole HelgetPublisher: Egmont USA
ISBN: 1606843524
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
When their mom said she was sending twelve-year-old Percy and Penny and their little brother, Pauly, to stay with an uncle they’d never met, she tried to make it sound better by saying that Uncle Stretch’s farm was a horse camp. Well, the farm animals are actually chickens and pigs, and the only two horses are mean-tempered and not too keen on being ridden by kids. As Penny puts it, “This farm is like the eighteenth century, but way worse! The water has a rusty taste, and all the meat used to be animals on the farm.” If there is one thing the twins can agree on, it’s that between endless chores, no Internet or cell phones, and the prospect that their mom might have to stay in jail (even though some people say she’s a hero), horse camp is a big, fat joke. Will they ever have a real family again? Or is there a family for them right here? Nicole Helget and Nate LeBoutillier have written a funny novel about farms and family, animals and antagonism—and the paths kids take, sometimes while living in the same house, before coming home.
Friends Journal
Author: Guide to Accredited Camps
Author: The Guide to Summer Camps and Summer Schools
Author: Summer Opportunities for Kids
Author: Christopher BillyPublisher: Peterson Nelnet Company
ISBN: 9780878663705
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
2004 Guide to ACA-Accredited Camps
Author: American Camping AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9780876031865
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The 2,400+ camps accredited by the American Camping Association have met or exceeded the highest nationally recognized standards for health, safety, staff training, and program quality in camps.