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TWO WEEKS EVERY SUMMER: Appendix 1. Fresh Air Organizations

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Appendix 1. Fresh Air Organizations
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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: A Reckoning of Childhood, Race, and Neoliberalism
  4. 1. Knowledge, Girl, Nature: Fresh Air Tensions prior to World War II
  5. 2. Church, Concrete, Pond: How Innocence Got Disrupted
  6. 3. Grass, Color, Sass: How the Children Shaped Fresh Air
  7. 4. Sex, Seven, Sick: How Adults Kept the Children in Check
  8. 5. Milk, Money, Power: How Fresh Air Sold Its Programs
  9. 6. Greeting, Gone, Good: Racialized Reunion and Rejection in Fresh Air
  10. Epilogue: Changing an Innocence Formula
  11. Appendix 1. Fresh Air Organizations
  12. Appendix 2. Documented Fresh Air Hosting Towns, 1939–1979
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliographic Note
  15. Index

Appendix 1

FRESH AIR ORGANIZATIONS

Oral histories, records, reports, and articles from and about the following organizations informed this book.

California

Friendly Town Program, Friendly Town, Inc. (Oakland)

Connecticut

Fresh Air Fund, Life (Branchville)

Fresh Air Fund, New Haven Register (New Haven)

Iowa

Fresh Air Camp, Red Cross (Des Moines)

Friendly Town (Ames)

Illinois

Farm Vacations, People’s Organization of the Cabrini-Green Housing Development (Chicago)

Fresh Air Fund, Chicago Daily News (Chicago)

Fresh Air Fund, Hull House (Chicago)

Friendly Town Program, Chicago City Missionary Society/Community Renewal Society (Chicago)

Home Mission Fresh Air Program, Old Mennonite Church (Chicago)

Newberry-Dubuque Project, Newberry Avenue Center (Chicago)

Indiana

Fresh Air Camp, Girl Scouts (Hammond)

Fresh Air Fund, Indianapolis News and Star (Indianapolis)

Fresh Air Fund of Winona (Winona)

Massachusetts

Friendly Town, City Missionary Society (Boston)

Operation Discovery (Sharon/Boston)

Selma, AL, youth hosting venture, Ipswich residents (Ipswich/Selma)

Maryland

Children’s Fresh Air Society/Fresh Air Fund (Baltimore)

Minnesota

Camp Manakiki, Pillsbury Settlement House (Minneapolis)

Minnesota Vacation Visits, Minnesota Council of Churches and the Catholic Interracial Council of the Twin Cities (Winona)

United Way (Minneapolis)

Mississippi

Camp Landon, Fresh Air Program, General Conference Mennonite Voluntary Service (Gulfport)

Montana

Friendly Town Program (Kalispell)

North Carolina

Fresh Air Fund, Charlotte Observer (Charlotte)

Fresh Air Fund, Lions Club (Statesville)

Nebraska

Kathy Tyler Farm visits, Kathy Tyler—a junior at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965—and nine farm families (Omaha)

New Jersey

Fresh Air Fund for Anemic Children (Trenton)

New York

Camp Fund, Community Service Society (New York City)

Camp Nathan Hale, Union Settlement House (New York City)

Echo Hill Farm, Henry Street Settlement House (New York City)

Ethical Humanist Society home stays, Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island (New York City)

Fresh Air Fund for Greenwich Village Children, Greenwich Village Association and The Villager (New York City)

Grosevenor Neighborhood House (New York City)

Harlem Children’s Fresh Air Fund/Colored Children’s Fresh Air Fund (New York City)

Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund/The Fresh Air Fund/Friendly Town (New York City)

Hudson Guild Farm (New York City)

Friendly Town Program, Inner City Protestant Parish (New York City)

Fresh Air Fund, Troy Times (Troy)

Fresh Air Programs, Episcopal Diocese of New York (New York City)

Friendly Town, Manhattan Christian Reformed Church (New York City)

La Guardia Memorial House (New York City)

United Neighborhood Houses of New York (New York City)

Youth Services Agency Vermont Visit; Astor Fund (private), Office of Economic Opportunity (federal), President’s Commission on Youth Opportunity (federal), State of Vermont, Urban Task Force (New York City), Welfare Department’s National Institute of Mental Health (New York City/Vermont towns)

Ohio

Fresh Air Camp, Salvation Army (Canton)

Friendly Town Program (Columbus)

Fresh Air Fund, Radio Neighbors (Lima)

Friendly Town Program, Cleveland Inner-city Protestant Parish (Cleveland)

Pennsylvania

Children’s Visitation Program, Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities (Salunga)

Fresh Air Fund, The Mercury (Pottstown)

Friendly Town, Inter-Church Ministries of Northwestern Pennsylvania (Erie)

Lillian Taylor Fresh Air Camp (Pittsburgh)

Pittsburgh Association for the Improvement of the Poor (Pittsburgh)

South Carolina

Florence Fresh Air Fund (Florence)

Fresh Air Fund for Girls (Florence)

Wisconsin

Lake Geneva Fresh Air Fund (Lake Geneva)

Washington

Friendly Town, Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry and Seattle Public Schools (Seattle)

West Virginia

Fresh Air Camp, Union Mission (Charleston)

Ontario, Canada

Bolton Fresh Air Camp, Neighborhood Workers’ Association (Toronto)

Manitoba, Canada

Associated Fresh Air Camp (Winnipeg)

Fresh Air Fund and Social Services (Gimli)

Great Britain

Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund (London)

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