Community Recreation

Excerpt from Community Recreation: Suggestions for Recreation Boards, Superintendents of Recreation and Community Recreation Workers With the formation in June, 1906, of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, there began an organized, systematic effort to help cities throughout the country establish year-round recreation systems on a permanent basis, supported by funds raised through taxation and administered by mu nicipal departments under the direction of paid superintendents of recreation. Statistics on the recreation movement compiled by the Playground and Recreation Association of America for the year 1918 show that there were 129 cities having year-round recreation sys tems with over sixteen hundred workers em ployed the year round. In the great majorityof instances the work was publicly supported. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.