"Here We Sit Like Birds in the Wilderness Waiting for Our Dessert": The Girl Scout Program and Ordering Space in Camp Sacajawea's Dining Hall/Main House

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Susan Charles T. Groth

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It is early in the evening sometime in July, sometime in the 1970s, in the Dining Hall at Camp Sacajawea, a Girl Scout camp in Sparta, New Jersey. Dinner has been served and dessert will come out soon. Some girls are clearing tables. In the serving room, a meeting ground between kitchen and dining hall, the kitchen staff hands dessert trays to the girls on serving duty; campers are not allowed in the kitchen, and kitchen staff have little need to go into the dining hall (see Fig. I). The rest of the girls—at least one hundred and fifty—sit at the tables with their counselors and the other camp staff.

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