https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/evaluating-good-season

Several months after the ending of the 2002 camp season, a concerned camp director contacted me. As the director of a small nonprofit camp, he had received a bit of critical feedback from the board...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/making-best-better

Not too many job descriptions include expectations like, “Be able to rise early, go to bed late, and remain enthusiastic all day long.” “Work well with many different types of people.” “Share your...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-through-decades

Snapshots of camp’s history remain steadfast in the minds and hearts of camp pioneers, moving beyond the boundaries of time. In a series of interviews with several American Camping Association (ACA)...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/i-am-therefore-i-think

"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly. — from The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne Big Questions About 300 years before Winnie...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-director-remembers-world-war-ii

Running a camp during World War II took creativity, ingenuity, and some sacrifice. While friends and family were being asked to give their lives for our country, those of us at camp wanted to do our...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-memory-my-first-directive-alford-lake-camp

I could barely contain myself. After seven years of delicate negotiations, Alford Lake Camp was ours. It was November 1962, and Mrs. Carleton Knight had “transferred” the camp to us. This momentous...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/childrens-camps-adirondacks

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the mountainous Adirondack region of northern New York was one of the nation’s premier resorts. The grand resort hotels, smaller inns, and boarding houses...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/opening-day-blues

The bus arrives. The campers race off to their cabins. Except Sam. The camp director had warned during orientation that his parents thought he might have a “few separation issues.” Standing just off...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/working-children-special-needs

It is often said by people who mean well that working with children with special needs “requires the patience of a saint.” Not true. What it does require is human compassion — something more of us...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/out-mouths-babes-unlocking-mysteries-language-voice

My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound. Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet — by William Shakespeare BIG Questions Children learn...