You bet we're interested, Kate!
I'm especially interested in the sources of the songs used by the Cooperative Recreation Service. It's amazing how far some of those songs spread, probably because they were used and taught by camp counselors and music terachers all over the United States. Cottage Window is a good example. so is Above a Plain, and Stodola Pumpa. All three of these are Czech songs found in songbooks from the Cooperative Recreation service.
This page at World Around Songs gives a brief history of the Cooperative Recreation Service (and there's a gorgeous photo at the top of the page).
-Joe Offer-


I wondered if John in Kansas was going off his rocker with his lecture on coops, but maybe not. Click here for information about the cooperative movement, and you'll see that the Cooperative Recreation Service was involved in the thick of it from the very beginning. Never again will I question the wisdom of John in Kansas.