Buck’s Rock has been an artsy camp mainstay for decades and was in danger of going out of business during the pandemic.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/style/bucks-rock-camp-steinberg-von-furstenberg.html

Furthermore, Poitier emotionally anchors the film to Ruby Dee’s Ruth through her essential role in leading the wagon train and strength in confronting Buck’s vulnerabilities along the way.

Source: https://collider.com/sidney-poitier-harry-belafonte-buck-and-the-preacher-western/

However, Buck’s encouragement helped O’Leary slowly regain this ability as he began to practice more consistently.

Source: https://unewsonline.com/2023/11/john-oleary-setting-the-world-and-slu-on-fire/

So the idea that time was limited and we should spend our time on what matters and make ourselves happy and worry less about what everybody else thinks — that’s a huge part of Buck’s story, in general, on the show.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/911-is-buck-dead-spring-premiere-showrunner-interview-1235544114/

The novelist Lionel Shriver was a counselor at Buck’s Rock for three summers in the early 1980s and remembers it affectionately.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/style/bucks-rock-camp-steinberg-von-furstenberg.html