https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-american-camp-association-has-evolved-through-certain-crisis

Crises are not new to camps or to the camp movement. Two world wars, the Great Depression of the early 1930s, and a polio epidemic all tested the viability of camps and their camp association. Each...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bug-juice-other-culinary-delights

Take two parts graham cracker, two parts chocolate bar; one part large, toasted, gooey marshmallow pressed between the graham crackers; and insert the conglomeration of flavor and mess into the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/evolving-look-camp

Award-winning author and architectural historian Abigail Van Slyck researches institutional buildings in order to find out what was on the minds of the people who built them. In her book A...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/summer-camps-popular-culture

"Hey, you must be the short, depressed kid we ordered. Glad you made it." — Meatballs, 1979 (Reitman) I highly doubt that camping pioneers such as Ernest Balch or Frederick Gunn would...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-clean-clean

During a recent birthday celebration dinner at a casual dining restaurant with table service, our friendly server, Bella, escorted our family to a table laden with dirty dishes. She left our family...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/developing-excellence-camp-leadership-four-requirements

A 2004 American Camp Association poll of its members found that the one area camp administrators wanted more information on was personal leadership development. It is evident that there is a quest in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/exceptional-opportunities-lasting-inspiration

Inspiration — this is what I hope to get out of every American Camp Association National Conference. It comes in many forms; my list is long: Finding a new "toy" in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/family-conference

To be able to go to ACA's National Conference and feel so many people focused on the same goals that drive you, a group of people working toward a mission — it encourages so much growth. To be around...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/creating-exceptional-experiences

Have you heard the theme song "Try Everything" from Disney's animated film, Zootopia? Musical artist Shakira performs the song and voices a character named Gazelle, a pop star from the city of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/anxiety-importance-play-interview-shimi-kang-md

Shimi Kang, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, researcher, author, and speaker who specializes in adolescence and addiction. She is the author of The Self-Motivated Kid: How to Raise...