The Story of the Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks
by
James Schlett
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping expedition for some of America’s preeminent intellectuals to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks. Dubbed the "Philosophers’ Camp," the trip included...