L-ibrary OF THE University of North Carolina This book was presented by Aohevi lie- Clutvn C a rr\ c e_ ^ ^U.s I2^b Boys’ Camps and Girls’ Camps In The Southern Appalachian Mountains Where the Sky is Blue The Air is Pure The Climate Salubrious Summer Camps in the mountains for boys and girls have passed the stage of experimentation. They have become an important part of the educational system of our country. These summer camps are filling such a need in the life of boys and girls that, though a comparatively new move¬ ment, little need be said in justification of them. Combining, as they do, training in class-room with training in the open, they furnish the boys and girls of the country a wholesome, attractive and highly beneficial way of spending the summer vacation period. The Southern Appalachian Mountains embrace the Mountain Sections of Western North Carolina, Northern South Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, Northern Georgia and Virginia. By reason of the temperate climate and beautiful scenery of these mountains, many people interested in out-of-door life are attracted here. We publish in this booklet a list of Boys’ Camps and Girls’ Camps in these mountains, that have been in successful operation for several years past; also some views typical of this extensive movement of education and out-of-door life. Additional copies of this booklet may be had free of charge by addressing nearest Southern Railway System representative. P/Zls-oJ Boys’ Camps and Girls’ Camps In The Mountains Booklet giving full particulars concerning the individual camps as shown below may be secured by addressing the director. Name and Location Name and Address of Director Name and Location Name and Address of Director Ash-No-CA Camp Asheville. N. C. Camp Dixie for Boys Wiley, Ga. Camp Greystone (Girls) Tuxedo, N. C. Camp Highland Lake (Boys) (Georgia Military Academy) Highland Lake, N. C. Camp Highland (Girls) Y. W. C. A. Camp Highland, Ga. Camp Illahee (Girls) Brevard, N. C. Camp Junaluska (Boys) Lake Junaluska, N. C. Camp Junaluska (Girls) Lake Junaluska, N. C. Camp Kallamuchee (Boys) Calderwood, Tenn. Camp Laurel (Boys) Candler, N. C., RFD 1. Camp Le Conte Wonderland Park, Tenn. Camp Merrie-Woode (Girls) Sapphire, N. C. Camp Minnehaha (Girls) Bat Cave, N. C. Camp Sapphire (Boys) Brevard, N. C. Camp Suwali (Girls) Chimney Rock, N. C. Camp Tippecanoe for Boys Tuxedo, N. C. Mr. George Jackson, Asheville. N. C. Mr. A. A. Jameson. Chamber Commerce Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Rev. Jos. E. Sevier, First Presby¬ terian Church, Augusta, Ga. Col. J. C. Woodward, President, College Park, Ga. Miss Lucy Marvin Adams, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Hinton McLeod, Brevard, N. C. Miss Louisa Reid, Gastonia, N.C. Major John M. Ward, Lebanon, J enn. Miss Ethel J. McCoy, care of Interment College, Bristol, Va. Mr. B. M. Banks, University of Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. Wiley O'Kelly, Candler, N. C., RFD 1 . John M. Gore, 511)4 Market St., Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Jonathan C. Day and Miss Mary Huston Turk, Sapphire, N. C. Mrs. Belle Abbott Roxby, 42 Bay St., Daytona, Fla. Mr. W. McK. Fetzer, University of N. C., Chapel Hill, N. C. Mrs. E. M. Hoffman, Salisbury, N. C. Director, Mr. George E. Simmons. % Y.M. C. A., Spartanburg, S.C. Camp Toxaway (Girls) Lake Toxaway, N.C. Camp Transylvania (Boys) Brevard, N. C. Chunn’s Cove Camp (Girls) Asheville, N. C. Chimney Rock Camp for Boys Chimney Rock, N. C. Dixie Camp for Girls Clayton, Ga. Eagle’s Nest Camp (Girls) Waynesville, N. C. French Broad Camp (Boys) Brevard, N.C. Keystone Camp (Girls) Brevard, N.C. Laurel Falls Camp (Girls) Clayton, Ga. Laurel Park Camp (Boys) Hendersonville, N. C. Rock Brook Camp (Girls) Brevard, N. C. S C Y Camp for Boys Blue Ridge, N. C. Skyland Camp (Girls) Clyde, N. C. Snyder Outdoor School for Boys Lake Junaluska, N. C. (Fall and Spring Terms) Captiva Island, Fla. (Winter Term) Y. M. C. A. Camp (Boys) Tallulah Falls, Ga. Miss Katherine Davis, 19 West Gordon St., Savannah, Ga. Mr. R. McC. Perrin, B. S , 3923 Carondelet St., New Orleans, La. Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Allis, RFD 2 , Asheville, N. C. Mr. Reese Combs, Box 781, Miami, Fla. Miss Hope Finfrock, 415 East 14th St., Houston, Texas. Miss Carol Purse Oppenheimer, 620 East 40th St., Savannah, Ga. Major Henry E. Raines, care of 1 he Citadel, Charleston, S. C. Miss Fannie Holt, 1341 Liberty St., Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. C. W. Smith, Clayton, Ga. Mr. I. B. Brown, care of Porter Military Academy, Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Henry N. Carrier, Brevard, N. C. Director, W. D. Weatherford, Southern College of Y. M. C. A., Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Robert Harris, Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Clarence E. Snyder, 035 Fine Arts Bldg., Chicago, Ilf. Mr. W. T. Forbes, Gen. Secy., Y. M. C. A., Athens, Ga. Vacation time presents its problems and its oppor¬ tunities. One of the most important and absorbing questions in the American home is the sons’ long summer vacation, too often wasted. Boys From Camps Near Brevard, N. C., Often Make Canoe Trips Down the French Broad River to Asheville High Diving is a Diversion Which the Boys Enjoy The summer camp for young people has been proved to be a positive benefit. It is a welcome change to them from the winter's environment of the school room, and a solu¬ tion to the parents of the ever present ques¬ tion what is best for the growing boy and girl during the summer vacation. Dance of the Huntress—Diana and Her Maidens The out of door life, regular hours, carefully proportioned rest and recreation, well balanced meals at regular intervals, will, together with wisely directed thoughts and proper supervision over all, develop minds and bodies fitted for upright manhood and womanhood. Boy Scouts in the Appalachian Mountains I These Girls Become Expert Horsewomen sniuiiuint The basic principle of camp life is helpful activity, life in the open, hiking, canoeing, swimming and diving, base¬ ball, basketball, volley ball, boxing and wrestling, tennis, track and field sports, target practice and horse back riding. The chief object of the camp is to give the boy and girl a vacation which will be at once enjoyable and profit¬ able. Horseback Riding—One of the Many Out-of-Door Pleasures The normal boy must have some outlet for his energies. Unless he is properly led or guided he may form asso¬ ciations that are harmful. Athletics in the Mountain Camps Develop the Strong Men of the Future Summer camps are established as a place where a girl may spend the summer in an en¬ vironment tending to develop a type of young womanhood that will be a pride to herself and her parents. Setting-up Exercises WESTERN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLS “Land o) Land of the Sky—Climate There is probably no place in the world where the climate is finer in the summer and fall than in these mountains. We show here the summer temperature as given by the United States Weather Bureau at Asheville, N. C. The temperature is given at the warmest hour of the day. 3 p.m. l ypical Mean Temperature for One Year Month Maxi¬ mum Mini¬ mum Month ly Total Rain No. of hrs. sun¬ shine January. 44.8 29.2 27.0 3-41 136.7 February.... 49-7 31? 40.2 2.78 176.9 March. 45 • z 28.5 36.8 2.00 200-9 April. 68.8 44 - I 56.4 I . 09 268.0 May. 73-9 53-8 63.8 4.53 779 • 9 June. 77 - I 58.0 67.6 4.74 2b9.8 July. 82. 6 61.5 72.0 2.78 287.8 August. 79 5 bl .3 70.4 4.26 227.2 September. . . 78.0 56.9 67.4 4.09 Z43.0 October. 68.5 48.2 58.4 3-33 I 9 I -5 November. . . 59 0 38.O 48.5 2.20 203.6 December. . . 46 .5 28.8 37 -b 5.01 162.6 Year. 64 - 4 45 .O 54-7 40.22 2647.9 Average temperature for Asheville for the three summer months for six years. United States Weather Bureau: June July August 1917 67. 5 72.0 70.3 1918 69. 6 68.9 72.8 1919 70. 3 73.2 71.1 1920 68. 6 71.6 70.0 1921 71 . 8 73.2 70.6 1922 71. 2 72.8 69.0 BRISTOL fefi'ayNR — — forth Wilkesboro Linville Sff/ ..•# , Taylorsville .Statesville .Barber fFOREST U.WAY ARION SALISBURY Mooresville Davidson Chimney Rock ^VRutherfordton Concord, "l/LWAY Shelby Gastonia Kings Mountain BLACKSBURG SPARTANBURG Chester RAND MCNALLY & CO.,NEW YORK ORTH GEORGIA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE ky” Mountains Elkin Mocksville CHARLOTTE ^Fdrj^Mill Rock Hiir^ -^Xltttawba. Mt. Mitchell Altitude 6,711 feet, the highest peak in eastern America—Twenty miles northeast of Asheville. The summit of Mt. Mitchell may be reached by a splendid automobile road from Black Mountain station on the Southern Railway, sixteen miles from Asheville. Mt. Pisgah Altitude 5,749 feet, may be seen to the south of Asheville, and is reached by good automobile road by way of Candler to the edge of the forest reservation; thence by way of a very good but steep mountain road to the Inn near the top of the mountain. Many noble Peaks add to the beauties of Western North Carolina In the Black Mountains Altitude Mt. Mitchell.6711 Blackstock Knob . . .6386 Potato Top.6419 Black Dome.6504 Mt. Gibbs.6591 Hall Back.6403 Balsam Cone.6645 Black Brothers.6620 Cat Tail Peak.6611 Hairy Bear.6691 Bowlen's Pyramid.. .6348 Deer Mountain.6233 Long Ridge.6259 In the Craggy Range Craggy Dome.6105 In the Balsam Range Mt. Pisgah. 5749 Double Spring.6380 Richland Balsam . . .6540 Plott's Balsam.6090 Jones' Knob.6224 Rock Stand Knob.. .6002 Brother Plott.6240 Silvermine Bald . . . .6040 In the Balsam Range— Cont. Altitude Black Mountain. . . .6245 Amos Plott.6278 Rocky Face.6031 Chimney Peak.6234 Spruce Ridge.6076 Reinhardt.6106 Devil's Court House 5816 Yeates Knob.6001 In the Smokies Mt. Buckley.6599 Clingman's Peak. ...6611 Mt. Love.6443 Alexander.6447 Mt. Henry.6373 Mt. Guyot.6636 Roan Mountain ... .6310 Collins .6188 Tricorne Knob.6188 Raven Knob.6230 Thermometer Knob. 6157 Luftee Knob.6232 Cataloochee.6159 Grassy Ridge.6220 Cold Spring.6015 Cold Mountain.6000 A splendid program of wholesome activity to convert the waste of the long summer vacation into genuine physical development. ❖ ❖ ❖ The Manly Art of Self-Defense is Taught Here anil.it Mountain camps provide a place where girls may spend a wholesome happy summer, inspired with a love of the out of doors, and help them make friends with nature. Botany Class—A Most Interesting Hour The age of the early teens is camp age for the girl, when she longs for life in the open, for mountains, for games that will test her skill, for a lake, ferny nooks and crackling camp fires beneath the stars. A Ceremonial meeting of the Camp Fire Girls 3IIIIIIIIIIIIC Girls may select the particular activity in which they are most interested and receive instruction in camp craft, nature study, basketry, wood blocking, stenciling, clay modeling, sewing, cooking and gardening. Basket Weaving A Dip in a Pool of a Cool Mountain Stream is Very Refreshing During the Summer Months snmniiic Campers interested in nature study find great opportunity to know more intimately the forms of natural life that abound in the mountains. Each evening is spent in playing games on the campus, in singing and story telling about the camp fire, or other special programs. Camp Girls at Rest Boys’ camps and girls’ camps are under the personal care of men and women who are trained leaders, and offer an opportunity to spend a part of the long summer vacation amid a pleasant and wholesome environment. The campers are developed physically, men¬ tally, socially and morally. The Swimming Hour at a Camp for Girls aiiiiiiiiiiuc The intimate relations which campers have with one another and with their counselors, and the little acts of kindness, courtesy and thoughtfulness to each other, must strengthen their characters. Rest Hour at a Camp An Athletic Class jnnimnnr Sometimes very pitiful is the loneliness of the solitary boy or girl who has never learned how to gather friends. They can come into their own in an atmosphere of friendship and attachment to companions which camp life affords. ❖ ♦> ip 1 Through adjustment to natural and prim¬ itive circumstances, new to the town bred boy or girl, the camper learns to surmount difficulties cheerfully, to conquer fear and discouragement, to forget self in fine com¬ radeship with others. Camp Boys in Sunday Attire Southern Railway System The double track trunk line between Washington , D. C. and Atlanta , Ga. The pioneer through route between Cincinnati-Louisville and Florida The short line between New Orleans and Cincinnati THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH W. H. TAYLOE Passenger Traffic Manager WASHINGTON, D. C. W. A. BECKLER, Passenger Traffic Manager CINCINNATI, OHIO S OUTHE I"llS m ' *1 C"-f | yi^p» # ~\ X m