One of the Jewish museums recently had an exhibition on Jewish summer
camps.  I will try to get the title and name of the museum for you in the
next day or two.

On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Barbara Weitbrecht, Smithsonian wrote:

> 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.

> If some museum out there would like to add a department of
> summer-camp studies, I would love to be one of the curators.  :-)
>
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> Barbara Weitbrecht
> National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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