Her ziti with meat sauce was tasting just fine until all this vegetarian stuff started. But, shoot, it's just ziti we're talking here. At 34, codirector Margaret Lopez has spent half of her summers at the Shire. It was formative in my life. At Shire Village, there is no junk food, no TV, no movies, no dress code.
Some campers even stumble to breakfast wearing their pajamas.
All those buzzwords that seem overrun at other camps, many of them ruled by competition and regimentation. The composition he wrote on Shire Village helped him win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. At 44, he lives in a Boston suburb, runs a biotechnology company, and sends his daughter to Shire Village. As a teenager and founding member of the Shire in 1972, he sported long hair, an earring, and the conviction that camps should be democracies, not dictatorships. In the camp theater, kids who choose improvisation for the hour are up on stage.