People's Educational Camp Society.
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Camp Tamiment, a summer resort for socialists and their families near Bushkill, Pennsylvania, on Lake Tamiment in the Pocono Mountains, opened in 1921. Its purpose was to serve as a summer retreat for faculty, students, and friends of the Rand School of Social Science (a school for workers in New York City that was closely allied with the Socialist Party) and to provide a reliable source of revenue for the School. It was owned and operated by The People's Educational Camp Society (PECS), a corporation created by the School for this purpose. The Camp was home to the Tamiment Playhouse, which became a major creative outlet for theater, dance, film, and television in the United States, nurturing major entertainment figures such as Danny Kaye. Camp Tamiment was a financial success from its outset, and had served as a major source of support for the Rand School for more than twenty years, when the Internal Revenue Service revoked the Camp's tax-exempt status in 1963. This action contributed directly to the Camp's demise; it closed in 1965 and was sold to commercial interests
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Lake Tamiment (Pa.)
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Bushkill (Pa.)
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Pocono Mountains (Pa.)
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Pennsylvania
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