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Almost there : the family vacation, then and now / Curtis Gillespie.

by Gillespie, Curtis, 1960-

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Thomas Allen, 2012.

306.48125 G478a

Gillespie, Curtis, 1960- -- Family.

Family vacations -- Humor.

236 p. ; 23 cm.

"Using his own history of family vacations as a backdrop, Gillespie explores how the meaning and symbolism of the family vacation has shifted throughout the decades. For years, families drove across the country or relaxed at a lakeside cottage. Now even the middle-class travel with their nannies or go on a Disney cruise...or take their nannies with them on a Disney cruise. As he sifts through memories and explores family vacation history, Gillespie ultimately discovers that not only is how we choose to vacation an expression of who we are as individual families, but that the very nature of the family vacation reflects, and sometimes even predicts, societal change."

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