In this installment of NPR's Word of the Week, we go to camp: from 16th-century military lodgings to the wilderness adventures of the 1880s designed to turn boys into "manly men."
Counselors and campers pictured at YMCA Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio, in 2024.
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New uses for an existing resource.
