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A tribute to family, friendship and 45 years at summer camp, Campingly Yours paints a poignant picture of character, charisma and courage, lovingly nested in America's heartland. Punctuated with vivid imagery and laugh-out-loud humor, Thomas C. Adler's moving memoir is a joyful, tender journey that is well worth the ride.

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.,. 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. <p> 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. <p> 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. <p> 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) Jeff Melvoin, Television Writer/Producer, (Hill StreetBlues, Northern Exposure, Alias)

".,."" 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) ""Jeff Melvoin, Television Writer/Producer, (Hill StreetBlues, Northern Exposure, Alias)"""

.,. 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) Jeff Melvoin, Television Writer/Producer, (Hill StreetBlues, Northern Exposure, Alias)

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