It's a place that will stay with you for a life time. The experience, the friendships, the setting. It's a special place. Thomas Edison sent his sons and nephews here. Rich in tradition! You will ask yourself. What's your number. read more

They "held back" and then destroyed my sons postcards that were addressed and stamped and had desperate pleas for me to pick him up. He had a severe head injury from the first days at camp by the third day demonstrating every possible symptom of a concussion -- trouble sleeping, ringing ears, nausea, noise sensitivity, crying incessantly. All obvious to the camp leaders, but they never took him for medical evaluation. He had forgotten how his family looked or the year before camp and was panicked about those things, but they would not even allow him to rest. My son thought I forgot to send sheets (I told the counselors that they were in the trunk) and slept with no sheets for 3 weeks -- child abuse and negligence. He pleaded to call home, tried to walk home, and they refused and told him that they were his guardians now, his mother was no longer his guardian. In the words of his counselor and section head Doug Hinton, "he was just manipulating them". My 10 year old son spent 21 days in a living nightmare. After the brain trauma 2 kids in his cabin physically assaulted him on a daily basis, punching kicking jumping, constantly worsening his concussion. My son thought we had forsaken him because we never got his letters. He has a long road to repairing the physical damage and to recover from the traumatic brain injury and regain his mental acuity. But nothing can erase the terrifying memories for him and the horror that I live with for leaving him there. They will not allow any phone call home under any conditions -- and if the child is clearly suffering they will paint a very different picture for you. If there is one thing I could erase from my life and my sons' it's the 21 days he was at Camp Dudley. read more