▸ 1962–1999
Summer Camp
Cabins, campfires, canoes, and your first camp crush.
The screen door slams behind you as you run for the lake — pine, campfire smoke, and bug spray in the air, canoes along the shoreline, somebody picking guitar on a picnic table. Camp wasn't just a place, it was a world of its own: bunk beds and flashlight tag, friendship bracelets and talent shows, canoe races and capture the flag, homesick on day one and in tears on the last. Long before social media, this is where the memories were made — the songs drifting from rec halls, campfires, mess halls, buses, and cabin radios all summer long. For a few weeks every year, camp felt like its own little universe.
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▸ Did you know
- Homesick on day one, in tears on the last — camp had a way of becoming home in a week.
- Friendship bracelets, flashlight tag, and a guitar nobody could quite play but everyone sang along to.
- Long before social media, camp was where you made friends who lived hundreds of miles away.