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Over the years the idea of summer camp has acquired some campy meanings. Now, in addition to oddities like math camp, the New York Times has covered -- or uncovered -- nude camps where kids play strip volleyball, and the Wall Street Journal charted kinder, gentler camps featuring all-veggie cookouts and aromatherapy.
Writer Geo Beach remembers a different kind of camp, and how it plays many summers later.
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Over the years the idea of summer camp has acquired some campy meanings. Now, in addition to oddities like math camp, the New York Times has covered -- or uncovered -- nude camps where kids play strip volleyball, and the Wall Street Journal charted kinder, gentler camps featuring all-veggie cookouts and aromatherapy. Writer Geo Beach remembers a different kind of camp, and how it plays many summers later.
Transcript
Camp World
by Geo Beach
Summer camp is a chore now, the task of selecting a product from the back pages of the Sunday Times Magazine to insulate your child from the dangers of boredom brought on by a lazy season that mocks strict schedules and delineated assignments, an escapist season scooped out of days that melt like ice cream in the Neapolitan dusk.
When I was a small boy my father said there was no reason for children to go to summer camp - they knew just how to play, with thoughts watered by a sprinkler and steaming into dreams under an afternoon sun.
"A boy just wants to dig in the dirt," he pronounced at dinner.
Later he was talking on the telephone - it must have been the local contractor because next day dad swung open the gates of our wooden fence and in drove a dumptruck that tipped 8 or 10 yards of earth into a mountain out back.
"You can take any of th...
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Adam Allington
Posted on June 02, 2004 at 06:39 PM | Permalink
Review of Summer Camp
What a great story/commentary/narrative. Really brings you into the "mood" of the piece. So often producers try to conjure a moment, or a tone, with all sorts of slick ambient and protools wizardry. Just goes to show that good storytelling and writing will always make good radio. This would be a good piece to play almost anytime, but especially in Spring or Summer.