6/20/2023 0 Comments Camp Girls by Iris Krasnow![]() Newly eligible for Medicare, I am a camp girl forever, still walking the grounds and swimming the lake in a place that has bestowed me with an ageless spirit, unfailing tenacity, and unbeatable skills in the game of jacks. Contributing to Agalog summer after summer is how I discovered my passion for writing, planting the roots for a long literary career. I was hired to resurrect the camp magazine, Agalog, which had ceased publication in the early 1980s. I could never imagine, departing as a sobbing 19-year-old for my would-be last summer, that four decades later I would be back on staff. ![]() Jittery during those first weeks, sleepaway camp became so much fun that I would return for the next nine seasons, two as a counselor. ![]() In June of 1963, at the age of eight, I boarded an overnight train in Chicago bound for Camp Agawak in Minocqua, Wisconsin. ![]()
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