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“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In short, the summer camp should best be read not as a simple rejection of modern life, but, rather, as one of the complex negotiations of modernity taking place in mid-twentieth century Canada.”

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Book:The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

Source: The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

“Looking out over the lake, I felt enveloped in the most peaceful, loving utopia.”

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Book:Harriet Tubman

Source: Harriet Tubman

“A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.”

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Book:Harriet Tubman

Source: Harriet Tubman