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Memories Sought
For Fresh Air Book
In August 1902, two women, Ida
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Koppel and Blanche Hart, treated a
group of young Jewish immigrant
children and their mothers to an
afternoon picnic on Detroit's Belle
Isle. The guests came neatly coiffed, •
wearing their finest clothes, tattered
and stained with the hardships of a
poor immigrant's life. It was a day of
firsts: the first time many had ever
ridden a streetcar, their first venture
away from chaotic city life and into
the "fresh air." This was the first
group of Fresh Air Society
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campers.
Fifteen years later, Belle Friedman
(Kosofky), an 8-year-old Russian
immigrant, rode a streetcar to
Station 22, Venice Beach, the first
permanent home for the camp
located on Lake St. Clair. She
remembers the camp-issued uni-
forms, flannel nightgowns and
bathing suits each child was given.
"It was a chance to get away and,
in those days, no one had much
money so camp provided us with
these things," recalled Friedman of
West Bloomfield.
Friedman is one of many who
have shared their camp memories
for an upcoming book on the histo-
ry of the Fresh Air Society and
Tamarack Camps. Author Wendy •
Rose is looking for others who may
have unusual or special stories.
Marty Maddin, a late '80s
camper now at the University of
Wisconsin, remembers the summer
he broke his arm, the toy tank his
counselor built for him as a gift and
how being a camper shaped him as
an adult.
"Camp Tamarack had a profound
effect on my life. I learned to respect
nature, the environment and to
respect people," said the 23-year old
law student. "Everyone wonders
why Jewish geography works so
wonderfully. Well, camp is probably
70 percent of the reason."
Rose is looking for others to share
memories, unique photographs, let-
ters, journals and other camp
mementos for the book, which will
be published in Fall 2001. E-mail or
write to Wendy Rose in care of
Tamarack Camps, 6735 Telegraph
Rd., Suite 380, Bloomfield Hills,
MI 48301, or e-mail her at
wrosepr@mediaone.net