David
Vacation ~trauss, in American Quarterly (Summer
1987), 303 College Hall, Univ. of Pa., Philadel-
phia, Pa. 19104-6303.
When vacationing Americans go camping or mountaineering, or otherwise answer the call of the wild, they follow a trail first blazed liberal New England Protestant ministers of the 19th century.
Before the 1850s, the "vacation" was an upper-class indulgence, for Southern planters and Northern merchants who could afford summer ref- uges such as Newport, Rhode...