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Addition to Early life: summer camps

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The user below has a request that an edit be made to Edward Albee. That user has an actual or apparent conflict of interest.
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COI disclosure: I have a professional connection to Adirondack Camp and am therefore requesting this edit rather than making it myself.

Proposed addition, as the opening of the second paragraph of "Early life", immediately before "Albee attended the Rye Country Day School":

Albee spent boyhood summers at Adirondack Camp in Glenburnie, New York, and later at the Lake Sunapee Summer School in New Hampshire.^[1] The camp newspaper, The Adirondack Eagle, listed him as an intermediate reporter in its issue of August 3, 1940, and carried a short signed account by him of an overnight hike, written when he was twelve.^[2]

Sources:

Mel Gussow, Edward Albee: A Singular Journey (Simon & Schuster, 1999),

 pp. 58–59, states that Albee was "usually at the Adirondack Camp in upstate
 New York" during the summer, and later at Lake Sunapee.

The Adirondack Eagle, August 3, 1940, p. 7, carries the article

 "Intermediate Overnight Trip to Beaver Lodge" under Albee's byline; p. 2
 lists him among the paper's intermediate reporters.

On weight and sourcing: Gussow is the standard biography and covers the summer camps, so this is an expansion of a detail already in the principal source rather than a new topic. The Eagle is cited only for plain descriptive facts about its own contents — date, byline, masthead listing — per WP:PRIMARY. I have not characterised the significance of the article, as no published source has done so.

I scanned this issue and uploaded it to the Internet Archive myself -- i found it recently among some archive materials -- so I have not cited that upload in the reference. Anyone who would like to verify the byline can see it here: https://archive.org/details/adk-eagle-1940 — the relevant text is on p. 7. Kbedell (talk) 22:54, 25 July 2026 (UTC) Kbedell (talk) 22:54, 25 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Addition to Early life: summer camps