Sleep Away Camp, Experienced

Camp Cejwin (2016) courtesy of Richard Lewis photography

For two summers, I attended a pair of very different sleep away camps. While there are people who swear summer camp experiences were the “best times they ever had,” I have decidedly different feelings.

I felt a sense of obligation to my parents when I agreed to attend Camp Cejwin in 1975. I was the rare “third generation“ camper, as my grandparents had rented a cabin on the lake for several years while my mother…