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Professor publishes book about summer camp history, influences, traditions
Since their beginnings, summer camps have delivered much more than a simple encounter with the natural world. Instead, according to Abby Van Slyck, the Dayton Associate Professor of Art History at Connecticut College, camps have provided a manufactured version of wilderness that is shaped by middle-class anxieties about gender roles, class tensions, race relations and modernity and its impact on the lives of children.