Media visionary and business titan Eisner presents a candid look back at one of the most formative experiences of his life--the time he spent at summer camp learning life lessons while sitting in the stern of a canoe or meeting around a campfire at night.
He writes... "As I once began a piece of writing in The New Yorker magazine, "I grew up in a summer camp--Keewaydin--whose specialty was canoes and canoe travel." It was at the north end of Lake Dunmore, about eight miles from Middlebury, in Vermont. In addition to ribs, planking, quarter-thwarts, and open gunwales, you learned to identify rocks, ferns, and trees. You played tennis. You backpacked in the Green Mountains on the Long Trail. If I were to make a list of all the varied subjects that have come up in my articles and books, adding a check mark beside interests derived from Keewaydin, most of the entries would be checked. I spent all summer every summer at Keewaydin from age six through fifteen, and later was a counselor there, leading canoe trips and teaching swimming, for three years while I was in college."