“In the 1870s and 1880s, the first summer camps promised boys a chance to escape increasingly urban modern life. Roughing it would build character, and, as one early camp founder put it, save humanity from “dying of indoor-ness.”
In 1900 there were fewer than one hundred camps in the US. By 1918, there were more than 1,000.” (Gershon)
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