I have been trying to locate a camp I went to in Hunter NewYork in the
Caskills.    It no longer exists, but I am trying to locate people or
infgormation from when the camp existed...The name is Camp
Schoharie...It was quite popular in the late 40s and all through the
fifties!!  it was somewhat of a leftist Jewish overnight camp!!

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Request for Question Clarification by mwalcoff-ga on 18 Oct 2002 06:53 PDT

Are you seeking the camp's geographic location?

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Request for Question Clarification by digsalot-ga on 19 Oct 2002 13:35 PDT

Do you know if there was any connection between Camp Schoharie and
Camp Sharon?   (perhaps different names for the same camp?)   Camp
Sharon was religiously 'conservative' though I have no idea what its
politics were.

Hello murph46-ga:

Your question was: 
"I have been trying to locate a camp I went to in Hunter NewYork in
the
Caskills.    It no longer exists, but I am trying to locate people or
infgormation from when the camp existed...The name is Camp 
Schoharie...It was quite popular in the late 40s and all through the 
fifties!!  it was somewhat of a leftist Jewish overnight camp!!"

I was not able to find a specific site for Camp Schoharie; however, I
found a great site devoted to the glory days of the Catskills,
including links for Jewish children's summer camps. Your best bet for
hooking up with fellow alums of Camp Schoharie is at this "Camps" page
from the Catskills Institute:
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/queries/camps.html

You can post your e-mail address there, allowing former campers at
Schoharie to contact you. (Go to the end of that page and you'll find
a post from a researcher who wants to interview people who attended
Catskills' summer camps up until the early 1940s. You may wish to
participate in that research project.)

The Catskills Institute describes itself as "An Organization to
Promote Research and Education on the Significance of the Catskill
Mountains for American Jewish Life." Their home page is:
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/index.shtml

At the above site you'll find a wealth of links pertaining to the
Catskills,  including site contributor's memories of children's camps
and "bungalow colonies." There's even an archive of past conferences
on Catskills' history, and newspaper articles about those conferences.
You can also find information on the next "History of the Catskills"
conference, which will be held in August 2003.

Among the page's links is one for Alan Stamm's remembrances of Stern
Camp: "Camp Life," which is sure to invoke nostalgia for anyone who
attended Catskills camps back when there was still such a thing as the
"Brooklyn Dodgers": http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/camp/camptoc.html

I tried searching with the strings:

"Camp Schoharie Catskills Jewish." 
"Camp Schoharie memories." 

The first link I gave you is your best bet for reuniting with friends
from Camp Schoharie.

Sorry I couldn't find a specific site for the camp. Please let me know
if my answer is sufficient.

Regards,
nancylynn-ga

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Clarification of Answer by nancylynn-ga on 26 Oct 2002 14:47 PDT

I forgot to note this earlier: in order to post your inquiry seeking
fellow campers from Camp Schoharie at the site I gave you:
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/queries/camps.html

You have to e-mail: Phil_Brown@brown.edu
He will post your message and e-mail address, on your behalf. 

Also, you attended Schoharie in late '40s and early '50s? There is an
author who has posted at this page:
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/queries/misc.html

That author is seeking information about, and people familiar with,
Catskills camps that existed from the 1920s into the early 1960s, that
"were organized by the Farband/Labor Zionist Organiztion, the
Workmens' Circle/Arbeter Ring, the Sholem Aleichem Institute, The
Jewish People's Fraternal Order of the IWO, the Borochov Schools, and
the Non-Partisan Jewish Workers' Childrens' Schools." Perhaps Camp
Schoharie falls into that category?

Hi...I think the researcher did a great job...her answer gave me some
direction, but no real satisfaction as yet!!  It was a great try, tho.

Hi, I think the camp may have been referred to as Camp Schoharie
because that is the name of the county, but the actual name of the
camp may have been different. See the link below for reference to
Jewish Camps in the Catskills

http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/confrep/5.html

Good point, pelican2-ga. I think perusing the first link I gave:
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/queries/camps.html 

and the link you just cited, should jog murph46-ga's memory if the
camp itself was not called Schoharie. The online community at the
Catskills Institute site should be able to help our questioner
identify the camp, if it wasn't called Schoharie.

Regards,
nancylynn-ga

Thank you for the nice rating, murph46-ga. 

I did just try another search string: "summer camps Lake Schoharie
1950s,"
and that led me to a site where you can purchase a book that lists and
describes all summer camps in New York State, as of 1948. "Published
by State of New York, Department of Commerce, Albany, N.Y., 1948.
Softcovers, oblong 8vo., 56 pp. Lists camps by region of the state and
gender of campers accepted. Provides the Post Office, the name of the
camp, the director and his/her address, the age of the campers, the
capacity, dates of operation, rates, and the sponsoring organization."
The book can be purchased for $22.50 at:
http://www.jonathansheppardbooks.com/Booklists/New_York_Books.htm

If I didn't mention this before, when I try searching for "Camp
Schoharie," I come up with a Lutheran summer camp.

Good luck. I hope Mr. Brown (I gave you his e-mail) can help you hook
up with some fellow campers!

nancylyn-ga