On         Tue, 24 Oct 1995 "Barbara Weitbrecht, Smithsonian"
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>The "s'more" thread does bring up the obvious question: is anyone
>out there collecting information on "summer camp culture"?  I was
>a camper for many years, and a camp counselor after that, and the
>songs, food, stories, games and other traditions of summer camps are
>a source of endless fascination to me.  Each camp has its own oral
>tradition, passed from counselor to camper and from the older
>campers to the younger.  It's the closest I've ever come to
>understanding the "feel" of a tribal society.

Yes, the Jewish Museum in New York several years ago exhibited memorabilia
from five or six Jewish Culture summer camps that were popular from the
1920s to the 1960s.
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