Kbedell

About Me

I am an semiretired engineer who's been writing or editing wikipedia articles for about 20 years and with about 100 edits in that time.

I focus on providing good quality, relevant information that is interesting, well-cited, and important. And sometimes fun.

My current focus is on articles related to:

• The history of summer camps on Lake George
• Early figures in the American organized camping movement
• The American Camp Association and its predecessors

Articles I Have Contributed To

• Lake George (New York) — Summer Camps section
• William H. Warrick — created
• Elias G. Brown — created

Sources I Work With

I'm learning to write well cited information relying on important. resources -- such as ancestry.com where many official government facts about people can be tracked, some written reference books, and a great deal on the [New York Times], of which i am a big fan.

Recent edits i've made have been supported by:

• A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children's Camps in the Adirondacks (Bond, Brumberg & Paris, 2006)
• American Camp Association historical records
• New York Times historical archive
• U.S. government records via Ancestry.com and the National Archives