Tag: Summer Camp
Camp Names
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Camp-Names.mp3 Author Tanya Underwood Air Date 7/5/2007 Camp Names Transcript When they arrived in the United States, as we know, many immigrants shortened or changed their names. Sometimes this happened because of clerical errors or out of patriotism, but often it was because of a simple wish to start a […]
Camp Crystal Lake
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Camp-Crystal.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 1/3/2007 Camp Crystal Lake Transcript As soon as our daughter was big enough, which to us meant the summer she was 8, we sent her to Camp Crystal Lake. It’s only a 45 minute drive from where we were living then, and, because it’s […]
Summer Camp
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Summer-Camp.mp3 Author Linda Stanley Air Date 7/26/2006 Summer Camp Transcript The lengthening days of summer bring with them a brief reprieve from normal routines for many parents and children alike. Every year in a time-honored tradition, little John and Sally pack their backpacks and head off for a week or […]
“Scrub Camp” – A Different Sense of Mastery
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Scrub-Camp-A-Different-Sense-of-Mastery-.mp3 Author Dave Reidy Air Date 6/29/2006 “Scrub Camp” – A Different Sense of Mastery Transcript In his essay “Boy Culture,” E. Anthony Rotundo cites examples of 19th-century boys tormenting woodchucks and maiming unoffending insects. Even urban boys would return to their city homes with trophies stuffed and mounted. Such […]
Camp
If your youngsters are away at camp, you may want to get some mailing boxes ready. Take it from Shelley Fraser Mickle.
Books for Camp, Summer Games and Sleep Overs
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-for-Camp-Sleepovers.mp3 Author Rosie Russo Air Date 7/5/2001 Books for Camp, Summer Games and Sleep Overs Transcript Part of the fun of summer for kids used to be learning and enjoying a whole bunch of things that you never did during the regular school year. Like making smores or spider dogs […]
Some Notes on Camp
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Some-Notes-on-Camp.mp3 Author Kenneth Kidd Air Date 6/27/2001 Some Notes on Camp Transcript Organized camping in the United States dates to 1861, when Frederick William Gunn, headmaster of the Gunnery School in Connecticut, took his entire student body for a two-week foray into the wilderness. The camping movement gathered steam with […]
Summer Camp 100 Years Ago
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Years-Ago-in-St-Nicholas.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 6/7/2000 Summer Camp 100 Years Ago Transcript “The hurried steps of the father descending the stairs were heard through the closed door. The son turned away to hide the working of his face and examined the pictures on the wall through a film of […]