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. :-) > > -- > Barbara Weitbrecht > National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution > [log in to unmask] >