A Paradise for Boys and Girls

by Bond, Hallie E.

• ISBN13: 9780815608226
• ISBN10: 0815608225
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

I have often wondered why children should fall in love with a place that is 11 bumpy miles from nowhere, that has no showers in the bunks, no TV, a telephone that rarely works, a canteen that sells only bobby pins ... (no soda pop or ice cream), a temperamental generator, and an impossible director.

Author Biography

Leslie Paris is assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. Joan Jacobs Brumberg is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor of history, human development, and gender studies at Cornell University. Hallie E. Bond has been a curator at the Adirondack Museum since 1987.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Philip G. Terrie
Preface	ix
David L. Pamperin
Caroline M. Welsh
Acknowledgments	xi
``Pink Music'' / Continuity and Change at Early Adirondack Summer Camps	1	(12)
Leslie Paris
``a Paradise for Boys and Girls'' / Children's Camps in the Adirondacks	13	(69)
Hallie E. Bond
``The Ministry of the Sun''	14	(8)
``A Brief Summer Interlude in the Wilderness''	22	(12)
The Outdoor Laboratory	34	(33)
``The Needs of the Oncoming Generations''	67	(10)
``Eleven Bumpy Miles from Nowhere''	77	(5)
``a Wiser and Safer Place'' / Organized Camping During World War II	82	(13)
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Appendix A / Adirondack Children's Camps, 1885--2005	95	(30)
Appendix B / Adirondack Children's Camps by Location	125	(6)
Notes	131	(8)
Sources and Further Reading	139	(2)
Index	141