Tamiment

Tamiment, first known as Camp Tamiment, was an American resort located in the Pocono Mountains of Pike County, Pennsylvania, which existed from 1921 through 2005.

Originally established by the Rand School of Social Science in New York City as a Socialist camp and summer school, Tamiment developed into a regular resort and later fell under private ownership.[1][2][3] The Tamiment Playhouse entertained guests with weekly revues and served as a training ground for many prominent Broadway and TV performers and writers. Playhouse alumni have included Danny Kaye, Imogene Coca, Jerome Robbins, Carol Burnett,[4] Woody Allen,[5] Neil Simon,[6] and many others. Tamiment was a popular resort for Jewish singles[7] and has been referred to as "a progressive version of the Catskills"[8] and "a pillar of the Poconos tourist industry.[9]

The Tamiment golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones,[10][11] was ranked among the top 200 U. S. golf courses by Golf Digest magazine.[12] The resort was liquidated in 2005 to make room for a residential condominium development.[9][13]

  1. ^ Swanson, Dorothy (April 1989). "The Tamiment Institute/Ben Josephson Library and the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University". Library Quarterly. 59 (2): 153. doi:10.1086/602107. S2CID 143831899. In JSTOR
  2. ^ Squeri, Lawrence (2002). Better in the Poconos: The Story of Pennsylvania's Vacationland. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 133, 203. ISBN 0271021578.
  3. ^ "Tamiment is sold in multimillion dollar deal". The Pocono Record. July 3, 1965. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  4. ^ Sweet, Jeffrey (November 2008). "The Tamiment Connection". American Theatre. 25 (9): 74–79.
  5. ^ Evanier, David (2015). Woody: The Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-250-04726-7.
  6. ^ Simon, Neil (1998). Collected Plays of Neil Simon Volume IV. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-684-84785-6.
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  9. ^ a b Sadowski, Michael (January 7, 2011). "Lehman officials will vote today on plan to turn resort into condominium complex". Pocono Record. Archived from the original on October 21, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
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  12. ^ Belden, Tom (September 28, 1986). "Golfing In The Poconos Offers Tees With A View". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  13. ^ Devlin, Ron (May 15, 2005). "Tamiment bidders find bargains full of memories". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2014-02-14.