What was Camp Robinson Crusoe?
–> Camp Robinson Crusoe (“CRC”) was a summer camp located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts (USA). Unfortunately, it has now closed. For its time, it was extremely innovative. It was coed, and non-competitive, dispensing with traditional activities like “color wars”. It was quite democratic, and allowed a lot of space for individual activities. Each group voted on a group activity for the morning, and then campers were free to sample various individual activities in the afternoon. It was not possible to attend for only a portion of the summer; campers had to enroll for the full eight weeks. Parents were only allowed to visit during two specified visiting days in the middle of the summer. Many of the photos on my camp pages are from the groups for the older campers, called “Primitive”, in which the campers lived in tents rather than bunks, pumped their own well water, cut their own wood for the wood-burning stove in the kitchen, and cooked their own meals. The “Primitive” units were cluster
