Item 9972 - Acting Out Bible Stories, Camp Lanier, ca. 1910

Item 9972 - Acting Out Bible Stories, Camp Lanier, ca. 1910
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Item 9972
Acting Out Bible Stories, Camp Lanier, ca. 1910
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At Camp Sidney Lanier in Eliot, campers acted out Bible dramas written by Sidney Lanier Jr. (1870-1918) every Sunday in the woods. Lanier, using ideas developed by his father, poet Sidney Lanier Sr. (1870-1918), attempted to teach children the "art of living." They participated in a strict routine of music, crafts, nature study, and other activities. Children went through a hierarchy of types of social organization to reach the highest form, which was spiritual and represented by farm and home.

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