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Australia Drama Camp
This song reminds me of Drama camp in 2005, my last year of high school. I had a huge fight with my then girlfriend and had a crush on another girl. She...
Read Memory Columbus, OH First Slow Dance
It was summer camp, the summer I turned 12. Every year, there was a big camp dance on the last night, and every year I was the girl out in the middle of the...
Read Memory New York, NY Hangin at ballet camp
My roommate at camp introduced me to this song. It was the first time I had ever heard a Peter Gabriel song, and I was hooked ever since.
Read Memory Atlanta, GA Thunder Clap! Hey!
There are few things you can do to really get kids involved in a summer camp that has little of their home life in it. For summers, I had been working at a...
Read Memory Atlanta, GA This Song Is Taking Control of Me
That summer starts and ends with this song in my mind. They played it everywhere. During Staff Orientation, it was the favorite of the few people responsible...
Read Memory Richmond, VA Songs Of Summer Camp Reprise
My second summer at Camp Hanover was full of memories. In addition to Backstreet Boys, the other song we sang all week was Blue Moon. We sang it every night...
Read Memory Richmond, VA The Music Of Summer Camp
That year, my second at Camp Hanover, was a snapshot of late nineties teen life, down to the slang and the songs that were popular at the time. I was 13. The...
Read Memory Metairie, LA Jamaica Say You Will
I was sixteen years old at the time and a counselor at Camp Cullen in Battles Wharf, Alabama for the summer. As counselors there were two to a cabin and ten...
Read Memory Rockwall, TX Dissident in the crowd
All right, I admit it: I listened to New Kids on the Block when they came out. I had the tapes, I had a poster or two, and I went to one of their concerts....
Read Memory Alexandria, VA Jungle Superstar
I was thirteen and at that stage in my life where I really wanted to fit in. I wanted to be a popular girl but didn't know how. I had friends but not...
Read Memory Atlanta, GA Maybe We Should Take It Slow
With "Ordinary People" John Legend has created one of the rarest things in musicdom, namely, a love song that is 1)good 2)popular and 3) good in...
Read Memory Saratoga Springs, NY Campfires and clove cigarettes
I took shelter underneath the tiny huts they provided for us as we ripped tickets and wristbanded the drunken masses as they made their way into the Dave...
Read Memory Moscow, ID No Thank You
Campers whirled through a programless lodge. It was “free time†and amidst crafts, sports, hikes, and mad rushes of 5th graders, I was seated on...
Read Memory Jacksonville Beach, FL Camp Songs
Campers spend lots of time on buses. The camps are far away, trips to town are further yet, and sometimes we travelled to other camps for joint...
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