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Summary: Why did it take so long . . .
Review: . . . for someone to write such a great, classic book about sleepaway camps? Laurie has done the best job of capturing the memories, the moments, the beauty of the experience. I highly recommend the book, should also be a great gift for any woman who went to summer camp as a child.
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Summary: Camp Spirit from cover to cover!
Review: From the cover with the reminiscent red plaid sleeping bag graphics, to song lyrics, recipes, journal entries and photographs, this book speaks so perfectly to the universal appeal of all-girls camps in America. I was fortunate to have attended three years of girls camp & one of co-ed camp, and even the images that are 100 years old seemed to jump off the pages as if they were from my own memories from 15 years ago. I absorbed the pages voraciously, and immediately told my old camp bunkmate about the book. Wow. I cannot remember any other book touching my memories as personally, and intimately. S'mores, campfires, secret rituals within our tribe, rifelry & archery, war canoe, trampoline, running around in our underwear, singing into broom handles, medals & awards ceremonies, vespers; All girls who've attended sleepaway camps have similar testimonies--only I didn't realize how similar until I read this book! It is a wonderful gift, because it is an unexpected and pleasant reminder of a longed-for childhood gone by. It also reminded me that my own children should be afforded this same priviledge that I received! In my mid 30's I still sing my own silly camp songs as well as the ones my mother taught me from her Girl Scout camp days, and the ones Grandma taught her from her own camping memories. This book will help the traditions be preserved for another 100 years. Bravo! Can I contribute to the next edition? I have hysterical photos of costumed talent shows from an era when imitating Madonna & the B52's were considered "talents!" LOL You can't go wrong with this book, or with sending your daughters to Sleepover camps! :O)
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Summary: A waste of time and paper!
Review: I am 15 years old right now, and i have been going to sleepaway camp for 3 years now. I went to camp not knowing many people, mabye 3 girls and now camp is something i can't live without! For four weeks, and starting summer '04 it will be eight weeks-i have thought about camp all year round. Camp is one magical place where you can get away, and this book captures that special feeling that camp gives you. For any camper old or new this book is amazing!!!
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Summary: Even appreciated by a young camper
Review: I am 15 years old right now, and i have been going to sleepaway camp for 3 years now. I went to camp not knowing many people, mabye 3 girls and now camp is something i can't live without! For four weeks, and starting summer '04 it will be eight weeks-i have thought about camp all year round. Camp is one magical place where you can get away, and this book captures that special feeling that camp gives you. For any camper old or new this book is amazing!!!
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Summary: A waste of time and paper!
Review: I bought this book, expecting to find an all engaging volume reminding me of the fun times of summer camp. Instead, I was greeted by dull and repetitive narration which could not have ended soon enough. 242 pages of camp nostalgia, please, by the end I was all too glad my camp days were over and were nothing but a distant memory. If you really must relive those days of disgusting camp food and sleepless nights filled with mosquitoes, save your money and take this book out from the library, where it must surely be collecting dust.
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Summary: Brings the reader right back to camp!
Review: I went to a camp in the Pocanoes for 12 years, my daughter now goes to this very same camp! 90 years!! This summer, while spending a week with other alum from my camp, "Sleepaway" was recommended to me. This book, from cover to cover, perfectly summed up all our camp experiences. There are many, many pictues of campers all the way back to the early 1900's...very neat to see what camps looked like back then! We were excited to see our camp in there!
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Summary: We want to write a sequel!
Review: Not only have I been ordering and sending this book to as many of my 1970s camp friends as possible, but we're already starting to do a sequel! We think this book is long overdue, and full of the most wonderful memories! So, we plan to do one for our 70-year-old camp. I sent my daughter (who is at camp now) this book, so she'd perhaps understand why she was destined to be 3rd generation at her camp, and why it means so much to me to go back for reunions and mother/daughter weekends! Thanks so much for the words and pictures on each page. Even my mother loved it!
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Summary: A10-star book for all women who ever went to sleepaway camp!
Review: Open this book and you will be hit instantly with the smells and sounds of piney cabins, iron bunk beds, quiet hour, grace sung before meals, campfires, swimming buddies, skinny dipping after dark, whispers in the night, and more. If you're like me, the best summers of your life will come spinning back gloriously. Filled with instantly recognizable pictures of campers in those dreadful uniforms that made dressing so quick and easy -- white shirts, dark bloomer-like shorts, and satin neckties -- all happily sharing experiences and friendships we'll never ever forget. Nostalgia never tasted so good! This book is for every woman who was once a girl who, as soon as school was out in June, packed her metal trunk and sent it off with the Railway Express man as she took a sleeper car train trip to the New England woods for an unforgettable, carefree eight weeks of making lanyards and ashtrays (!), passing swim tests, singing silly songs we still remember the words to, playing hares and hounds and color wars, liking chipped beef on toast, loving storms that blew rain through the cabin screens, washing our hair in the lake, crying at the final campfire. I want to track down every camp friend from 13 years at 6 different camps and show them this book.
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Summary: Nostalgia
Review: This book brought back to life so many of my camp experiences. I send my children to the same camp that I went to and am fortunate enough to see alumni and keep in touch with camp friends. This book flew off the shelves of every bookstore in the Portland, Maine area this summer as everyone went in search of a copy. It is a fabulous book in which Laurie Kahn has brought to print all our wonderful camp memories. Read it - you might even see photographs of that camp where you spent your childhood summers!
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Summary: The Good Ole Days!
Review: This book really took me back to the optimism of my youth and reminded me of what a fabulous life I used to have! You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll feel ten years old again! That is well worth the price of the book.
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