No Camp Reunion in 2010
Proposal to remove the CRC lakes (current status, 4/11/09 walk-through)
On Facebook? See Donna Lewis's Camp Robinson Crusoe Facebook group.
What ever happened to "Planting Weekend"?

About Camp Robinson Crusoe, Josh & Leah, and more, with photos
Was Robinson Crusoe the world's first "Computer Camp"?
See a satellite view of the camp's site
Read some of my camp stories

Photos
See my photos from when I was a camper
Other camp photos
See photos from the '99 Reunion at Camp Taconic
A visit to the camp in July, 2006, with photos
A follow-up visit in July, 2007, with photos
The April 11, 2009 walk-through, with photos
The gong on the CRC lawn, in winter

Interested in Camp Robinson Crusoe? You should also visit the "official" CRC site, with more pictures and information. To get there, click on the button to the right (but you will be leaving my pages).

Larry in 1955		Larry in 2009

I first attended Camp Robinson Crusoe as an Intermediate boy in 1952, and remained a camper through 1957, when I was in Trout Pond Primitive. I subsequently became a Trainee and a Forester (two stages of counselor in training) in 1958 and 1959. Camp Robinson Crusoe was an important experience for me, partly because it was accepting of individual differences. I was a cerebral, very non-athletic kid in a group that was fixated on baseball, but nevetheless I felt myself part of the group (this was in no small measure due to the efforts of head counselor Larry Paley).

In these pages, "CRC" stands for Camp Robinson Crusoe, of course. I must confess that as an engineer, those initials came to mean other things to me. In my college days, they evoked the "CRC Tables", a hardbound book of mathematical tables produced by the Chemical Rubber Company. Later, when I worked in the field of Data Communications, it came to stand for "Cyclic Redundancy Check". "What is that?" I hear you cry. Don't ask.

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