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Going Back to Summer Camp
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
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The longest day of the year has passed, and that means kids across the nation are packing their bags for summer camp. For one or two golden months, kids escape their families and schoolmates and trade their smoggy cities and stifling suburbs for a chance to reinvent themselves. Summer camp is that kitschy, temporary utopia, where lifelong friendships and memories are formed while tie-dying t-shirts.
The new book Camp Camp by Roger Bennett and Jules Shell takes a look at this unique realm where Fantasy Island meets Lord of the Flies. It’s a collection of photographs, essays and personal memories of campers from the 70s through the early 90s. The book recalls the magical campgrounds where so many American kids experience romance, rejection, intimacy, embarrassment, and their first taste of true independence – often marked by pseudo-native American coming-of-age rituals.
Roger Bennet joins us on Word of Mouth to share some memories and examine a generation that came to its own around a campfire.
(Photo by Daniel Carrus)
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PLEASE bring back Day to Day. It was a much more appropriate program for the noon hour. Day to Day was informative, quick and edgey. I miss it. I can't listen to Word of Mouth. Word of Mouth would be better scheduled in the evening with its sleepy format and tone. A NHPR contributor.
I was the fortunate soul (or unfortunate soul) to grace the cover of the hit book 'Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord Of The Flies" with my bad hair, thick glasses, B.J.N. - Big Jewish Nose, crooked teeth, the occassional zit, skinny / unmuscular body, sock disease, and a terrible dresser. Hopefully my hideous pictures brought you laughter as I know my wife is still shocked that one could be so awkard as a kid and can't believe she married that same kid on the cover of the book. What is amazing is that I could be the grossest looking male EVER to have his face appear in GQ & Esquire magazines. At camp, kids were hooking up with girls after evening activity and getting to 2nd base. I'd get to 2nd base if I was lucky, but only on the co-ed under 14 softball team via a hard ground ball and and error by the shortstop. Oh, loved your blog on the infamous book !