MAINE PUBLIC • May 9, 2020
For more than 100 years, kids have flocked to summer camps in Maine to play in the woods, swim in a lake, forge new friendships and find a bit of freedom from their lives back home. But the new coronavirus is casting a cloud of uncertainty over how sleepaway camps might operate this summer — if at all. As camp directors plan for possible scenarios, some parents are holding out hope that this formative experience for kids can be preserved — even during a pandemic.