title: Campingly Yours: A Heartwarming Journey of a Lifetime at Summer Camp
author:  Thomas C. Adler 
description: In my opinion, Campingly Yours is more than a loving memoir of summer camp, it is an enchanting journey through the heartland of one man s life. Written with disarming simplicity and honest emotion, the folksy anecdotes and wry observations entwine like woodsmoke from an evening campfire. The book invites you to sit down and listen in to treasured stories full of laughter and friendship, music and memory, a sense of life s joys and its inescapable sadness. In addition to being a wonderful read, Campingly Yours asks us to share the author s lifelong desire to preserve and extend the values of a lost American childhood, a more innocent time in which boys and girls were able to experience life more directly, independently, and responsibly. To Adler and all of us lucky enough to have shared similar summertime adventures camp is far more than a place or a time; it is a way of looking at the world. As a writer, Thomas C. Adler is an American original. His prose is distinctively homespun understated, yet deeply felt; by turns amusing, sweet, and often surprisingly affecting. You know from reading this book that Adler is the guy you want in your canoe on a long day s paddle into the wind. I recommend reading Campingly Yours to anyone who has been to summer camp or wonders what they missed by not going to camp. And they missed a lot. Beyond that, however, the book will appeal to anyone who wants to know what it was like to grow up in a more innocent age and discover a singular slice of heaven in the forested lakes of northern Wisconsin. --Jeff Melvoin, Television Writer/Producer (Hill Street Blues, Northern Exposure, Alias)
zlib_text: Dedication
  For my husband, who may have secretly pined for months
  just like Kellan before finally asking me out…
  
  Contents
   
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter One
  6. Chapter Two
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Chapter Four
  9. Chapter Five
  10. Chapter Six
  11. Chapter Seven
  12. Chapter Eight
  13. Chapter Nine
  14. Chapter Ten
  15. Chapter Eleven
  16. Chapter Twelve
  17. Chapter Thirteen
  18. Chapter Fourteen
  19. Chapter Fifteen
  20. Chapter Sixteen
  21. Chapter Seventeen
  22. Chapter Eighteen
  23. Chapter Nineteen
  24. Chapter Twenty
  25. Chapter Twenty-one
  26. Chapter Twenty-two
  27. Epilogue
  28. Acknowledgments
  29. About the Author
  30. By Christi Barth
  31. Copyright
  32. About the Publisher
  
  Prologue
  Northwestern University Law School, Chicago
  November 1, 2:30 p.m.
  Kieran Mullaney pushed through the double glass doors of the Northwestern University Law School
  and sucked in a deep breath. Other people might think he was nuts, what with the exhaust fumes,
  pollution, general downtown stin