The Pirates of Dingley Dell: A True Swashbuckling Adventure at a Vermont Boys' Camp

By Bret Corbin

Visit a most extraordinary children's summer camp in Vermont operating during the 1920s and 30s where the attendees actually built the structures and recreational areas where they lived and played. Then learn how these talented youth experienced the ultimate boyhood fantasy by building a huge pirate ship and living on it during extended voyages across Lake Champlain, New York and Canada. Over ten incredible summers, Francis Godfrey Baker, engineer, boat builder and visionary, led groups of intrepid teenagers on an odyssey of life changing experiences while traveling aboard their pirate ship, Aladdin. Baker believed that a little ingenuity and determination turned boys into men and steered them on a course of events through raging weather and water, meetings with extraordinary people and self sustainability. He showed them the amazing power that comes through teamwork and camaraderie. This is the first in-depth account of the Adventurers Camp and the first time rare photographs of the boys' activities have been presented to the public. Join the crew of Aladdin as they embrace an era where life on the water was filled with magic and conviction that made dreams come true.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935922904
• ISBN13: 9781935922902
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Red Barn Books of Vermont
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.