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Book Taylor Camp

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Wehrheim
  • Publisher : Serindia Publications
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781932476460
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Taylor Camp written by John Wehrheim and published by Serindia Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title documents the history of Taylor Camp, a clothing-optional, pot-friendly, tree house village set up in 1969 on Kauai, Hawaii by Howard Taylor, brother of Elizabeth. The book features photographs accompanied by moving texts and interviews with the principal protagonists (and antagonists).

Book Ninja Camp

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sue Fliess
  • Publisher : Running Press Kids
  • Release : 2019-01-08
  • ISBN : 0762463309
  • Pages : 35 pages

Download or read book Ninja Camp written by Sue Fliess and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pack your bags and grab your gear: you're going to Ninja Camp! Listen closely to the ninja master, who will teach you everything you need to know to become a ninja warrior-but it won't be easy. You'll have to be sly and swift, strong and speedy, and only then will you become a Ninja of the Night! This fun and energetic book will delight and entertain kids and parents alike with its clever, rhyming verse and action-packed depictions of the coolest camp around. For fans of Ninja Red Riding Hood who are looking for a lesson in teamwork and cool stealth skills.

Book Camp Forrest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Taylor
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-13
  • ISBN : 1439656355
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Camp Forrest written by Elizabeth Taylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camp Forrest was a training, induction, and combatant prisoner-of-war (POW) facility located on the outskirts of Tullahoma, Tennessee. It was a self-sustaining city where over 70,000 soldiers were stationed and approximately 12,000 civilians were employed throughout World War II. In 1942, the camp transitioned to an enemy alien internment camp and was one of the first civilian internment camps in the United States. By the middle of 1943, it had transitioned into a POW camp and housed primarily German and Italian prisoners. After the war ended, the base was decommissioned and dismantled in 1946. In 1951, the area was recommissioned and expanded into the US Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex. Few remains of this important World War II facility exist today; however, the images within provide a glimpse into the effects and realities of a global war on American soil.

Book Embattled Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amy Murrell Taylor
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2018-10-26
  • ISBN : 1469643634
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Embattled Freedom written by Amy Murrell Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war. Amy Murrell Taylor vividly reconstructs the human world of wartime emancipation, taking readers inside military-issued tents and makeshift towns, through commissary warehouses and active combat, and into the realities of individuals and families struggling to survive physically as well as spiritually. Narrating their journeys in and out of the confines of the camps, Taylor shows in often gripping detail how the most basic necessities of life were elemental to a former slave's quest for freedom and full citizenship. The stories of individuals--storekeepers, a laundress, and a minister among them--anchor this ambitious and wide-ranging history and demonstrate with new clarity how contingent the slaves' pursuit of freedom was on the rhythms and culture of military life. Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war.

Book My Mother s War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eva Taylor
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2022-04-05
  • ISBN : 0369720431
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book My Mother s War written by Eva Taylor and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.” –Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter who spent over two years in three concentration camps during World War Two, told by her daughter using an astonishing archive of personal letters After her mother’s death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding collection of documents, photos and letters from her time as a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Holland. Using the letters, she reconstructed her mother's experience in the underground resistance movement and then as a prisoner in the Amersfoort, Ravensbruck and Mauthausen concentration camps. The letters reveal an amazing story of life during wartime, including declarations of love from her fiancé before his tragic death as a Spitfire pilot, prison notes smuggled out in her laundry, and passionate but sometimes terrifying messages from a German professional criminal who ultimately would save Sabine’s life. A one-of-a-kind story of survival, My Mother’s War captures a remarkable life in the words of the young woman who lived it.

Book Old Time Camp Stoves and Fireplaces

Download or read book Old Time Camp Stoves and Fireplaces written by A. D. Taylor and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created during the Great Depression by the U.S. Forest Service, this guide providedenvironmental safety and maintenance advice for visitors to national forests and parks.It contains finely crafted drawings and plans for outdoor stoves and fireplaces that offera window into a bygone era of handyman activity and a wealth of still-useful informationfor building barbecue pits, chimneys, warming units, and more. Do-it-yourselfers interestedin older construction techniques will find many ideas in this volume.Reprint of the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1937 edition.

Book Voices of Camp Forrest in World War II

Download or read book Voices of Camp Forrest in World War II written by Dr. Elizabeth Taylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camp Forrest was a World War II induction, training and prisoner of war facility in Tullahoma. The self-sustained city was home to seventy thousand soldiers and about twelve thousand civilian employees. In 1943, the base accepted and housed German and Italian POWs. After the war ended, the base was decommissioned and dismantled. The legacy of the facility at home and abroad is still evident today. The memories of those who lived, worked, trained and grew up during this time of sacrifice and war recount a time the world has not seen since. Author Elizabeth Taylor uses numerous personal interviews, newspaper articles, diaries and biographies to tell the stories of those who lived through the era.

Book The Cats We Meet Along the Way

Download or read book The Cats We Meet Along the Way written by Nadia Mikail and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut young adult novel set in Malaysia, charting Aisha and her family on a roadtrip through the country in search of estranged sister, June. Set against the backdrop of a world catastrophe, this novel is full of love, healing and hope.

Book The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics

Download or read book The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics written by Ingrid Hotz-Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp’s simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected, the abject. This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates what is arguably the single most important and foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to offer an important contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics and aesthetics of camp.

Book The New Camp Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Ly
  • Publisher : Voyager Press
  • Release : 2017-07
  • ISBN : 0760352011
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book The New Camp Cookbook written by Linda Ly and published by Voyager Press. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares campfire recipes for anyone who enjoys cooking outdoors, including chai-spiced oatmeal with cinnamon apples, egg-in-a-hole grilled cheese, tin foil seafood boil, and homemade hot chocolate mix.

Book A Few Good Memories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob Taylor
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2007-02-26
  • ISBN : 1412245559
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book A Few Good Memories written by Bob Taylor and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, mostly humorous, some nostalgic, about Marine Corps Boot Camp. What wasn't funny then can be humorous now. Marines, relatives, and friends submitted over 400 first-hand stories. The best of these are in this book. As one new Marine said to the author, "Nothing's funny in Boot Camp." But it is, years later.

Book The Politics and Poetics of Camp

Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Camp written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewel of the Desert

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra C. Taylor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780520080041
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Jewel of the Desert written by Sandra C. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area--the vast majority of whom were American citizens--were moved to an assembly center at Tanforan Racetrack and then to a concentration camp in Topaz, Utah. Dubbed the "jewel of the desert," the camp remained in operation until October 1945. This compelling book tells the history of Japanese Americans of San Francisco and the Bay Area, and of their experiences of relocation and internment. Sandra C. Taylor first examines the lives of the Japanese Americans who settled in and around San Francisco near the end of the nineteenth century. As their numbers grew, so, too, did their sense of community. They were a people bound together not only by common values, history, and institutions, but also by their shared status as outsiders. Taylor looks particularly at how Japanese Americans kept their sense of community and self-worth alive in spite of the upheavals of internment. The author draws on interviews with fifty former Topaz residents, and on the archives of the War Relocation Authority and newspaper reports, to show how relocation and its aftermath shaped the lives of these Japanese Americans. Written at a time when the United States once again regards Japan as a threat, Taylor's study testifies to the ongoing effects of prejudice toward Americans whose face is also the face of "the enemy." In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area--the vast majority of whom were American citizens--were moved to an assembly center at Tanforan Racetrack and then to a concentration camp in Topaz, Utah. Dubbed the "jewel of the desert," the camp remained in operation until October 1945. This compelling book tells the history of Japanese Americans of San Francisco and the Bay Area, and of their experiences of relocation and internment. Sandra C. Taylor first examines the lives of the Japanese Americans who settled in and around San Francisco near the end of the nineteenth century. As their numbers grew, so, too, did their sense of community. They were a people bound together not only by common values, history, and institutions, but also by their shared status as outsiders. Taylor looks particularly at how Japanese Americans kept their sense of community and self-worth alive in spite of the upheavals of internment. The author draws on interviews with fifty former Topaz residents, and on the archives of the War Relocation Authority and newspaper reports, to show how relocation and its aftermath shaped the lives of these Japanese Americans. Written at a time when the United States once again regards Japan as a threat, Taylor's study testifies to the ongoing effects of prejudice toward Americans whose face is also the face of "the enemy."

Book While You re Up  A Memoir by John M  Camp  Jr

Download or read book While You re Up A Memoir by John M Camp Jr written by John M. Camp Jr and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While You're Up, Jack Camp's engaging memoir, covers many topics: The wood products industry, Camp Manufacturing; Union Camp; particle board production; paper mills; paper production; Tidewater Virginia; Franklin, Virginia; Wallace, NC; St. Stephen, SC; farm life: dairy cows; sheep; hog killings; Virginia Military Institute; Babson College; flight school, World War II, the China-Burma-India Theater; General George Marshall; Karachi; Taj Mahal; Ceylon (Sri Lanka); flying The Hump; Rancheros; romance; raising children; deer hunting; the Baptist Church; church missionaries; blacks in the South; quail hunting; coon hunting; fishing; Virginia Beach; the Dismal Swamp; riding; travel; dogs; furniture making; rose gardening; charitable foundations; Figure Eight Island, NC; family reunions, vintage airplanes, and numerous other topics. This charming memoir includes many excerpted letters written by Jack Camp while in India during World War II.

Book Ghost Scouts  Welcome to Camp Croak

Download or read book Ghost Scouts Welcome to Camp Croak written by Taylor Dolan and published by Ghost Scouts. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fans of Isadora Moon, Amelia Fang, Skeleton Keys are going to LOVE the adventures of this gang of Ghouls' - Lily and the Fae 'An irresistible and very funny adventure... [that] demands to be read aloud' - Books for Keeps _______________ When Lexie Wilde is dropped off at Scout Camp, little does she expect it to be full of zombies, werewolves and three-headed witches, who all become the best of friends. But Camp Croak is under threat from the charmingly foul Euphemia Vile, and they must all come together in order to succeed ... the first in a new series, GHOUL SCOUTS. Lexie Wilde was pretty sure she was supposed to be joining the Happy Hollow Camp for Joyful Boys and Girls for the summer. So why did her Grams just drop her off under a big ol' sign saying WELCOME TO CAMP CROAK? And is she really sharing a cabin with a werewolf, a skeleton, a fancy schmancy zombie and a baseball-hat-wearing ghost? Yep, looks like she is! After earning some rather unusual Ghoul Scout badges, Lexie becomes the best of friends with her new pals, and before long is one of the team. However, danger lurks as the dastardly Euphemia Vile has plans of her own. And when their beloved camp counsellors succumb to an odd sleeping sickness, Lexie and her new friends become suspicious ... can they overcome the saccharine sweetness of their new Scoutmaster and save Camp Croak? The first in a laugh-out-loud series for young readers, with hilarious integrated two-colour illustrations throughout.

Book Camp TV

    Book Details:
  • Author : Quinlan Miller
  • Publisher : Duke University Press Books
  • Release : 2019-05-06
  • ISBN : 9781478003038
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Camp TV written by Quinlan Miller and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered conformist in their depictions of gender roles and sexual attitudes. In Camp TV Quinlan Miller offers a new account of the history of American television that explains what campy meant in practical sitcom terms in shows as iconic as The Dick Van Dyke Show as well as in more obscure fare, such as The Ugliest Girl in Town. Situating his analysis within the era's shifts in the television industry and the coalescence of straightness and whiteness that came with the decline of vaudevillian camp, Miller shows how the sitcoms of this era overflowed with important queer representation and gender nonconformity. Whether through regular supporting performances (Ann B. Davis's Schultzy in The Bob Cummings Show), guest appearances by Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly, or scripted dialogue and situations, industry processes of casting and production routinely esteemed a camp aesthetic that renders all gender expression queer. By charting this unexpected history, Miller offers new ways of exploring how supposedly repressive popular media incubated queer, genderqueer, and transgender representations.