Camp, The Importance of Camp, Why Summer Camp
As Mike wrote in an earlier blog posted on July 21st “Most days at Kamaji, the campers attend four different instructional activity periods — two in the morning and two in the afternoon — and have a free period at the end of the afternoon. They don’t necessarily...
Camp, The Importance of Camp, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office
Recently someone not connected with camp asked me “Why did you choose a girls’ camp to own?” Truth is, Mike and I did not intentionally choose a girls’ camp over a boys’ camp. When we started out in 1978 to look for a summer camp to own and direct, we had no...
Camp, The Importance of Camp, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office, Why Summer Camp
Did you know that summer camp is an American invention – with camps becoming more and more widespread 90 to 100 years ago?? As discussed in a 2002 article written by Kay S. Hymowitz titled Notes on Camp, “Back then forward-thinking youth leaders worried about...
Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office, Why Summer Camp
Would you not agree that the joys of childhood are incomparably sweet? No matter how old you are or how grown up you act, is there not a part of you that you undoubtedly miss — that of being a kid? Do you not sometimes have a longing for a time that was free of...
Camp, For Kamaji Campers Only, Thinking Out Loud at the Kamaji Office
• 80% of her summertime clothing is in her tribe color or has the word Kamaji somewhere on it. • Being at home makes her campsick. • She insists that lullabies are not sung; instead they are the call of the loon or the clang of halyard on mast or the sound of...
