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aAn insightful book about the evolution and significance of
children's camps in American social and cultural life. For all of
us who loved being at camp in the summer, Childrenas Nature is
evocative and it provokes many memories.a
--Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of "Fasting Girls"
For over a century, summer camps have provided many American
childrenas first experience of community beyond their immediate
family and neighborhoods. Each summer, children experience the pain
of homesickness, learn to swim, and sit around campfires at
night.
Childrenas Nature chronicles the history of the American summer
camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its
rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Leslie
Paris investigates how camps came to matter so greatly to so many
Americans, while providing a window onto the experiences of the
children who attended them and the aspirations of the adults who
created them.
Summer camps helped cement the notion of childhood as a time
apart, at once protected and playful. Camp leaders promised that
campers would be physically and morally invigorated by fresh
mountain air, simple food, daily swimming, and group living, and
thus better fit for the year to come. But camps were important as
well because children delighted in them, helped to shape them, and
felt transformed by them. Focusing primarily on the northeast,
where camps were first founded and the industry grew most
extensively, and drawing on a range of sources including camp
films, amateur performances, brochures, oral histories, letters
home, industry journals, camp newspapers, and scrapbooks,
Childrenas Nature brings this special and emotionally resonant
world to life.
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