S2 | E2: Why Three Weeks?

So we'll start with a little history of our session length.

So three weeks is actually our shortened version of what we kind of started out with.

So Stephanie, do you want to dive into some of this history here?

I didn't really, I mean, I'm sure I'd heard it along the way, but I didn't really remember it until we were kind of like, you know, doing our pregame before we get on here with you all.

But Allegheny actually, when we first started, was an eight-week program.

So there were two four-week terms.

Um, and then most girls, actually most girls back in the twenties and the thirties would come and stay the entire summer.

Like they just, I don't know, maybe their families were just like, well, we talked about this a little bit last week, just wanting to get their, their daughters out of the city and into, you know, wilderness nature camp when camping and, Really kind of, you know, when camps were beginning, like right at the turn of the century.

So we have that same history of having like longer terms than the girls were there for much longer.

Eventually camp moved to seven weeks, which is what Elizabeth and Mary Curtis and I were familiar with.

When we went to camp, term camp was three and a half weeks.

There was... you know, no mother daughter weekend, no mini camp.

Um, you know, I, Elizabeth is a little bit of a different situation, but like my parents put me on the bus when I was nine years old and had never laid eyes on Camp Allegheny.

And, you know, I do remember my mom crying in the parking lot.

Um, You know, I think just like excitement tears.

She wasn't sad.

I had gone to another camp previously, so we were very familiar with that.

It was just, you know, a different camp.

We also had a lot of full-termers back then compared to what we do now.

We still have a great full-termer program.

Our LITs make up the majority of those full-termers because that program is the full six weeks.

But, you know, we were a three and a half week long camp.

And Elizabeth, you probably remember, maybe Mary Curtis, we would come to camp.

I remember camp always started on a Sunday because I was a second term.

First term started on

So we'll start with a little history of our session length.

So three weeks is actually our shortened version of what we kind of started out with.

So Stephanie, do you want to dive into some of this history here?

I didn't really, I mean, I'm sure I'd heard it along the way, but I didn't really remember it until we were kind of like, you know, doing our pregame before we get on here with you all.

But Allegheny actually, when we first started, was an eight-week program.

So there were two four-week terms.

Um, and then most girls, actually most girls back in the twenties and the thirties would come and stay the entire summer.

Like they just, I don't know, maybe their families were just like, well, we talked about this a little bit last week, just wanting to get their, their daughters out of the city and into, you know, wilderness nature camp when camping and, Really kind of, you know, when camps were beginning, like right at the turn of the century.

So we have that same history of having like longer terms than the girls were there for much longer.

Eventually camp moved to seven weeks, which is what Elizabeth and Mary Curtis and I were familiar with.

When we went to camp, term camp was three and a half weeks.

There was... you know, no mother daughter weekend, no mini camp.

Um, you know, I, Elizabeth is a little bit of a different situation, but like my parents put me on the bus when I was nine years old and had never laid eyes on Camp Allegheny.

And, you know, I do remember my mom crying in the parking lot.

Um, You know, I think just like excitement tears.

She wasn't sad.

I had gone to another camp previously, so we were very familiar with that.

It was just, you know, a different camp.

We also had a lot of full-termers back then compared to what we do now.

We still have a great full-termer program.

Our LITs make up the majority of those full-termers because that program is the full six weeks.

But, you know, we were a three and a half week long camp.

And Elizabeth, you probably remember, maybe Mary Curtis, we would come to camp.

I remember camp always started on a Sunday because I was a second term.

First term started on