Many of the books described girls' experiences at summer camp. For girls, numerous accounts of the Camp Fire Girls were published in novels after 1912. The most common fictional accounts of camp were in book series aimed at teen girls and boys. Courage, generosity, goodwill, honesty are the touchstones of success in camp." Winthrop Tisdale Talbot (1905) passionately promotes the effect of camp on boys, writing, "In camp, poor and rich lads stripped to their swimming trunks are on an absolute equality the best man wins. Carlyle Ellis, writing in Everybody's Magazine in 1913 is not shy in summing up his view of the camp experience, calling it "the nearest thing to a perfect system of education in existence," and noting that the "chief work of the summer camp is to save children from their parents." In the monthly magazine The World's Work, educator and camp director Dr. This confident and optimistic view of the camping movement was echoed again and again at the turn of the twentieth century with enthusiastic descriptions of tan campers throwing off the evils of city life. Balch writes: "The story of Camp Chocorua, of the healthy, open-air life, of the high standards so rigidly lived up to, of the fun they had, of the work they did, and of the lessons in manliness they so unconsciously learned, is really written in the memories of the boys who, during those nine summers, spent their time on that little island." In "A Boy's Republic: The Story of Camp Chocorua," Alfred Balch describes with great enthusiasm how the day-to-day life of Chocorua aided the physical and spiritual development of boys. One of earliest was Alfred Balch's 1893 recollection in McClure's Magazine of his brother Ernest's pioneering camp, which operated from 1881–1889 in New Hampshire. Prior to World War I, most popular culture discussions of summer camp were in either magazines for adults or books aimed at teenagers. How did this happen? As the American Camp Association (ACA) celebrates its centennial and camp celebrates 150 years, it's a great time to reflect, with a grain of salt, on how perceptions of our industry have changed since the nineteenth century. But today, the typical American consumer is much more likely to see a summer camp depicted as crazy or scary than as a positive place for personal growth and character development.
I highly doubt that camping pioneers such as Ernest Balch or Frederick Gunn would have approved of Bill Murray's counseling methods as Tripper Harrison, Camp North Star's head counselor in Meatballs. Glad you made it." - Meatballs, 1979 (Reitman) "Hey, you must be the short, depressed kid we ordered.
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