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Camp Greentop: Our Favorite Years
Paperback
Biographies GeneralCampingGeneral Sociology
ISBN13: 9781977282576
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: Jun 26 2025
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if one summer camp could change the course of a person's entire life?
For thousands of children and adults with disabilities, Camp Greentop was far more than a summer getaway. Hidden within the beautiful Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, it became a place of freedom, friendship, acceptance, adventure, and personal transformation.
In Camp Greentop: Our Favorite Years, author Michael Jon Naugle shares a remarkable collection of 52 true stories from former campers, counselors, and staff whose lives were forever shaped by their time at this extraordinary camp during the 1960s and 1970s. Through touching memories, hilarious adventures, emotional reflections, and deeply human experiences, readers are transported into a world where disabilities never defined a person's worth or limited their dreams.
These unforgettable stories capture children learning independence for the very first time, adults discovering confidence and belonging, and counselors gaining life lessons that influenced their careers, relationships, and futures. Campers climbed mountain trails, learned to swim, performed in talent shows, formed lifelong friendships, and discovered strengths they never knew they possessed. In an era when accessibility and inclusion were rare, Camp Greentop created a community built on dignity, empathy, equality, and joy.
More than a nostalgic memoir, this powerful book shines a light on the importance of compassion, understanding, and human connection. It reveals how people with and without disabilities learned from one another, supported each other, and created bonds that lasted a lifetime.
Heartfelt, inspiring, humorous, and unforgettable, Camp Greentop: Our Favorite Years is perfect for readers who enjoy inspirational memoirs, true human-interest stories, disability awareness books, uplifting nonfiction, nostalgic Americana, therapeutic recreation history, and stories about overcoming adversity through friendship and community.
This is not simply a book about camp.
It is a book about belonging.
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