A Summer Without Camp
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Around this time of year, usually, Lisa Handelman is getting ready to relocate for the summer. |
| 0:10.7 | We'd be packing our bags, packing the bags, packing the car, packing the office, starting to move up to camp. |
| 0:17.3 | Lisa runs a Jewish summer camp in rural Pennsylvania, which is worth there for over a decade. |
| 0:22.8 | She's so familiar with her annual trip north that she can close her eyes and recreate it in her head. |
| 0:30.0 | First, the highway, then a little field of corn. |
| 0:34.4 | And then there's a certain point where you round a corner and there are hills in the background. |
| 0:40.3 | And for me, that's the first, I'm almost there. |
| 0:48.0 | As you're getting there, a little library is our landmark, a little sort of small town library |
| 0:54.9 | that we turn right at. I'm not one of these people that sings publicly, can't carry a tune, |
| 1:01.3 | but I do often find myself kind of like singing one of our camp songs and it just feels, |
| 1:08.0 | I don't know, it just feels like you're home. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm not a camp person, but Lisa, she makes me want to be one. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, I'm camp. |
| 1:23.0 | Your camp. |
| 1:28.6 | So how many kids usually go to your capital camps each year? |
| 1:33.8 | So we have 800 plus kids. We've got up to a thousand kids, depends on the year. This summer, |
| 1:40.6 | we were expecting a little bit over 800. What do you think that's going to be now? |
| 1:44.9 | If we're camp, it's really hard to say because we're right at a point right now, we're trying to |
| 1:51.7 | be side open, not open. So you hear good news and then you hear not so good news and then you hear |
| 2:00.0 | more not so good news and you're trying to figure out how we can possibly make this happen, |
| 2:06.7 | but at the end of the day, it has to be safe and it's not looking so good at the moment. |
| 2:15.2 | Today on the show, what about camp? Millions of American kids participate in this ritual of summer, |
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