The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century

by Margaret K. Nelson and Emily K. Abel

Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. Campers and staff took pride in the special ruggedness of the surrounding environment, and delighted in the exceptional rigor of the camping trips and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978836643
• ISBN13: 9781978836648
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 172 Pages