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Children's Camps in the Adirondacks
Camp Severance, ca. 1920. © 2003 The Adirondack Museum
The Adirondack Museum opens today for the summer season. A major new exhibition looks at the history of the region's summer camps. For millions of children, especially kids from the cities, summer camp is a first introduction to the north woods. Brian Mann spent a day with the show's curator and sends this preview.
 Hiking group, Adirondack Woodcraft Camps, ca. 1960. © 2003 The Adirondack Museum  Archery at Camp Navarac ca. 1960. © 2003 The Adirondack Museum  Camp Windymere, Blue Mountain Lake, 1918. © 2003 The Adirondack Museum  Morning exercise, Camp Red Wing, ca. 1930. © 2003 The Adirondack Museum   Above left: There was a time when Girl Scouts made their own uniforms. Above right: A totem pole from a 1920s camp on Long Lake. Below: Adirondack Museum exhibit curator Halle Bond. © 2003 The Adirondack Museum  |
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Summer camp season is over for another year. Thousands of kids visited the north country, learning about the outdoors—about literature—about computers. At the Adirondack Music Camp, in Schroon Lake, the focus was classical music. Teenagers from all over the world gathered around their passion for sound and rhythm. Brian Mann sends this audio postcard.
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It's summer camp season. Hundreds of kids around the north country are swimming and hiking, earning merit badges, practicing their musical instrument—even making radio. This week, at the Town of Altamont Summer Day Camp, kids worked with our Adirondack reporter Brian Mann, learning how to make a story for radio. They interviewed each other, asking about the best parts of summer. Here's our special correspondent, 10-year-old Riti Spada, reporting from the gym at LP Quinn Elementary.
This summer, the Sagamore great camp, near Raquette Lake, held a series of five retreats for grandparents and grandkids. Brian Mann visited Sagamore last summer and sent this audio postcard.
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For some kids, summer camp is more than fun. It's a second chance at life, a way to move past their grief. Camp Good Grief, based in Saranac Lake, is organized for kids grieving the loss of a loved one. Brian Mann visited the camp and sent this audio postcard.
Martha Foley is joined by Halle Bond of The Adirondack Museum, which plans an exhibition on children's summer camps, and Amy Godine, a journalist with an interest in ethnic summer camps. They share camp stories and take calls from listeners.
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