ISNT TAMAKWA TOO FAR AWAY FROM HOME FOR A CHILD?
It’s all relative. For the three generations of campers (all ages) who have come predominantly from Detroit (385 miles), it apparently is not too far. Nor is it too far for the children who return year after year from the west coast, east coast, the Midwest, and the South including Mexico. The attraction: an intimate camp community where every child is surrounded by the security of people who care, where each child feels the sense of belonging to something with tradition and continuity, where community as opposed to competition is the emphasis, where the beauty and cleanliness of the environment is renowned and matched by few other spots in North America, and where the two most important priorities are safety and fun. Experience tells us that if a child has all that, it doesn’t matter if the camp is 50 miles away from home or 500 miles away from home. It has always been the “away from home” part that affects a child; not so much the actual distance. We are, of course, only a phone call
