10 Great Summer Camp Stories

Whether you want to reminisce or feel like a kid at heart for the first time, summer camp is for grown folks, too.

Summer camps are impossible to book and too expensive. It’s the result of a toxic combination of problems.

Who hasn’t stopped to marvel over a cool rock along the lakeshore or on the trail? Here’s how to learn its backstory.

Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.

Not since Allan Sherman first sang “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah” have tales of summer camp woes been quite so entertaining.

Curious about the parents’ point of view? “I’m alone with my husband for the first time in 10 years.”

Summer-camp movies are less about applying bug spray, and more about like-minded people banding together to make something impossible and wonderful happen.

The gooey treat couldn’t have become popularized without the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, which brought cheap sweets to the masses.

At twelve years old I was sent away for one long hot summer of obediently serving the Lord. But instead of finding God, I discovered my rebellious streak.

What would Charles Dickens say if he knew that two hundred and sixty people had given up a precious week of summer vacation just to talk about him?

Make the most of fresh summer flavors with a dozen warm-weather treats to add to your repertoire.