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I was employed with a Summer camp for boys and girls,
Camp Shaw-Mi-Del-Eca
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com/shaw-mi.html >
near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia through most
of the 1970s. Their camp session began the last week
of June and ran until the first week of August;
campers could attend the entire 7 weeks or half of the
session. They also provided shorter special camp
sessions: poor Appalachian children [subsidized by the
Feds] in Mid-June; Band Camp in Spring; Family Camp in
August.

During the 1980s, the Summer Science Academy and
Science camps ran for most of June and July at
Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute
of Popular Science < http://www.planetarium.cc >.

When I served on the Board of Trustees of the Andrew
Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall in Carnegie,
Pennsylvania
< http://andrewcarnegie2.tripod.com/ >,
in the late 1990s, the Library's Summer Reading
Program for children ran from the end of the school
term in June until the beginning of August [and, I ran
this Summer Reading Program during the Summer of
1995].

So, basically, you want to avoid having your program
run much past the first week of August. August is
considered the traditional vacation month, when
families want to be free to leave town, without
worrying about their child missing a camp or class.

gaw

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:46:13 -0500 
From: "Amanda Chesworth" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Summer Camp Programs 
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Does anyone have any advice on the best time of the
summer to hold a 
camp
program, as well as the length of time found most
successful for the 
camp
program itself?

Thank you,
Amanda Chesworth
www.inquiringminds.org

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gaw

Glenn A. Walsh
Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] > 
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.planetarium.cc > 
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago: 
  < http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer & Optician John A. Brashear: 
  < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com > 
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: 
  < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc > 
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.incline.cc >

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