Camp Camp Book

Jesse Thorn is one of the most talented gents we have encountered, and we are not just saying that because he featured the project on his show... listen here and subscribe to the podcast. He is...

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Camp Camp was on the boom boxes across the nation, featuring on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon this weekend... yes that Scott Simon who went to Camp Indianola back in the day... listen h...

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We asked members of the CAMP CAMP FACEBOOK group which songs they only had to hear a snippet of on the radio to be instantly transported right back to camp... we had a massive response and all ...

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Lisa Schottenfeld of Camp Summit, Wurtsboro, NY is the camp equivalent of Allen Ginsberg... she sent in this crisp photo spread, accompanied by the below, which we present verbatim. If you went ...

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This masterpiece was sent in by Amy Bonn Meltzer from Camp Kennybrook Bunk J in 1987. This was banquet night when we all wore what we thought was the nicest thing we brought to camp which was wh...

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Roni Dinkes sent in these beauties. Her days at Camp Sequoia were "the best summers of my life." The images remind us of every social we ever went to. The anticipation in the run-up, spent execu...

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Camp has officially begun...!!! Over 12 million kids across the country have left the familiarity and comfort of home, striking out by plane, bus and automobile for their final destination: the ...

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Camp culture is a unique juxtaposition of opposites. The thrilling freedom to test your boundaries can exist alongside an unshakeable homesickness; a bunk can be both a place of both vicious ex...

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Amanda Grant Smith writes: The photo is of my BFF Melissa Storch Epstein and me. Melissa was from North Miami Beach and was hands down the style icon and trendsetter extrordinaire of Camp Akib...

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Thank you Entertainment Weekly for making us part of your Must List. And Rolling Stone, we can die and go to heaven now we are part of your Hot List. You rock.

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Camp was a place where you could experience the deepest love a human has ever felt, have your heart crushed, and be back in love with a different person, all in the same night. Most campers went...

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We are out and in stores in full color hardback ... (the pretty lady below is reading a galley) after three years of work, thank god for that. And thank god for Jesse Kornbluth and the amazing He...

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Camp was many things. The place you first learned to swim, played Nathan Detroit om stage to middling reviews, or shaved your legs for the first time. But above all, it was a sizzling Petri dish ...

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Thanks to all of you who keep sending in your photos and stories. We promise we will try and post all of them as they deserve to be in the Smithsonian. Michael Blatter sent in these beauties from...

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Although the lakes of Maine and the rivers of Wisconsin are a about as far from the catwalks of Paris as one can travel, at many camps it seemed as if Madison Avenue was just around the corner. T...

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Over twelve million kids are about to leave home to go to camps in every state in the union. As you celebrate Memorial Day remember those times down at the waterfront... which was more than...

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Most camps featured a wider array of competitive sporting activity than the Moscow Olympics. But the supremely gifted or sports obsessed, upped the ante, going to specialist sports camps run by ...

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It has been widely acknowledged that Summer Camp was a place of firsts, where you first shot a three-pointer, got to second base, or played Kenickie to universally positive reviews. But there wer...

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Few places on earth have more of a fixed social hierarchy than a bunk of adolescent girls at an American Summer camp in the 1980’s. On the first day at camp, once the storage bins had been stu...

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There were few better places on earth for radical male bonding to occur than in the boys bunk at Summer Camp. This was the spot where many of us changed from boys to men thanks to communal stash...

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Me and my girlfriend, Wendy Wallack, Camp Walden, Summer 1991. We were both counselors and when we were not “working”, we spent a significant amount of time hanging in the Meadow (gene...

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The mix tape was a staple of camp. An eclectic cascade of sound in which the one song that felt like it was played in the bunk all summer -- be it by the J. Geils Band, REM or Suzanne Vega -- cou...

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CAMP CAMP: WHERE FANTASY ISLAND MEETS LORD OF THE FLIES comes out June 3rd, 2008. You can see more here... Starting May 1st, we will be updating the blog with some camp mysteries that have remai...

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