Ms. Sittenfeld is a photographer and filmmaker and a former camp counselor. In 1999, after my freshman year in college, I was a counselor at a camp in central Vermont. It changed my life. For the ...

Summer camps in the West and Southwest have tried to hold steady through bouts of punishing heat. At Heart O’ the Hills, an overnight camp for girls 6 to 16 in Hunt, Texas, hot weather has long ...