When going to 'camp' meant Roman military lodgings — not summer fun

Published June 25, 2026 · Category: News

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Counselors and campers pictured at YMCA Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio, in 2024.

In this installment of NPR's Word of the Week, we go to camp: from 16th-century military lodgings to the wilderness adventures of the 1880s designed to turn boys into "manly men."

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(Image credit: Joshua Bickel)

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Originally published at www.npr.org.

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