Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things, with thing number 15, 100 years of summer camp.

This will definitely include your oral history calls, but we don't just want your wacky or nostalgic summer camp stories.

We actually want to get more serious about this, too, because the 100-year history of summer camps in the

United States is also a history of parental anxieties about modern life in the urban and

industrial era. So I'm going to throw a question out there to you from the start of this

100-year segment to try to point you in that direction. Why as a parent did you send your

kids to any kind of summer camp or why did your parents send you? 212-433 W-N-Y-C, 212-4-33-9-6-9-2.

Why, as a parent, did you send your kids to any kind of summer camp,

or why did your parents send you? Answer the why question, and then you can throw in your favorite

summer camp, utopian or dystopian memory, 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92, call or text.

But maybe you have a dystopian memory like this from the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere.

What if we made our own summer camp?

It's deranged.

No counselors. It'sanged. No counselors.

It's brilliant.

No rules.

We need an adult to pull it off.

I'm not an adult.

Thank you very much.

Tactically.

And no parents.

She'd be gone for eight weeks?

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