Item 9869 - Katharine Ridgeway Camp, Jefferson, ca. 1940
- Item 9869 - Katharine Ridgeway Camp, Jefferson, ca. 1940
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Image Info Katharine Ridgeway [Hunt], a dramatic reader and humorist, and Ella Harding Peffer (1887-1945), a vocalist, began their camp on Clary Lake in Jefferson.
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Peffer's husband, Crawford (1868-1961), ran the Redpath Chautauqua of New York and New England, a summer lecture circuit, and the Redpath Lyceum, winter lecture circuit.
The camp, which promoted the "physical, mental, moral, and social development" of girls from ages 7 to 21, operated from 1923 to the 1940s.
