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summer
Outdoor Childhood
A Week With No Schedule in Late June
After a school year of camps, classes, and color-coded calendars, one family in Bloomington, Indiana tried a week in late June with nothing on it, and discovered how slowly children fill an empty day.
Outdoor Childhood
Free Play in a Brooklyn Park, One Summer
Across eleven weeks at the Vanderbilt Playground in Prospect Heights, a small group of children built a society out of sticks, water, and the long flat afternoons of June through August.