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Chapter Thirteen
A Bit of Dash Between the
Kee and the Wah
SUMMERS OF 1960 – 1963
Wherein our author finds a new type of summer experience, with fewer limits.
Co-operation
In the summer of 1960, after my junior year at Midwood, I started a new type of camping adventure, at a new type of camp. Located in Wingdale, New York, the only other notable resident of which was the Harlem Val- ley State Psychiatric Hospital (which primarily housed the criminally insane), was Camp Kee-Wah, known to some as Camp Kee-Wah and to others as Camps Kee-Wah-We (for boys) and Kee-Wah-Ke (for girls). The “kee” question concerning the camp name was immortalized in a song written by Bella Tilles, who you will remember from Midwood:
Is there a dash between the Kee and the Wah? The answer is hard to find.
Is there a hyphen there, or is it just plain air? It’s driving me out of my mind.
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