Camps Books

A wonderful book full of photographs that tell the story of Black Hills Hay Camp, which was later named "Rapid City."

A hard-boiled blind detective seems a contradiction in terms, but somehow the author pulls it off. Zany nature of the novel reminds me of some of Craig Rice's work. Or given the explicit sex, maybe Ted Mark would be a better reference.

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Author Fritz Stansell writes with a warmth, humanity, and humor that makes his memoir of the early years of Michigan's Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp a fascinating read. His tales of fire departments at cross purposes, a naked girl at his front door, his children making a movie of their "Crummy House," a maestro inching through the camp in the back seat of a cab and later being pushed aside by a food service worker whose office he had just used as a dressing room, were a few of the stories that made me laugh out loud. And the characters come alive: Gretchen, his wife, can do anything from washing a year's worth of dishes in a bathtub and raising a family to teaching teenagers to play string, brass, and woodwind instruments and running a world renown international program; Fr. Merek, a real life angel, never lets the camp down, even in its darkest hour when the dream was nearly lost; Ludolph Arens, Stansell's grandfather, an aristocratic, visionary, and somewhat eccentric leader of an early midwestern music colony, serves as the author's inspiration. You can't miss the themes of tenacity, love, courage, education (primarily the Stansells')-- and the book is also a how-to for anyone hoping to successfully run a non-profit.

On the way back from Lake Tahoe, my parents and I stopped by Bodie and I am telling you that place is so great to go to. This book is history and I think it would be a great history book to give your kids. That place is from the 1800's. I recammend this book to everyone. It might be small book but it is still great for learning.

Alfred Kantor Died, January 16, 2003.He was a talented watercolorist and made public his drawings of the conditions and characters he survived as a prisoner of the Third Reich. Imprisoned at 18 in three Nazi death camps for a total 1238 days, he and his friends risk their lives to document the horror. Thirty four years ago the images on these pages were emblazoned in my mind. You will not have to read it more than once, and pass it on.This collection of paintings enjoys world wide acclaim. We must remember.

I will send 1/ 2 of net proceeds to www.kehilaprag.cz. Where old people of his homeland need help.

This is an astonishing book. It is not so much "about" the Holocaust as about the requirements of surviving something that dismantles every shred of coherence and faith in the world. The voice of Anna Ach Asher who both tells her own story and "writes" the poems is unflinchingly honest, bitter, witty, brilliant, and, almost against her will, lyrical at its core. I am neither a Jew nor a religious believer, but this book is prayerful in a way I can believe in. The God conjured here is powerful but hapless; nevertheless the prayer is genuine--both lament and praise poured out to the universe as it is, as if it could and must answer. The answer that comes, painfully and piecemeal, is from the wounded others who enter and depart from Anna's world like the ghosts they often are. Finally this is a love story, a story about the unlikely survival of community and connection that earns our astonished belief.

Brainstorming: Life After Acquired Brain Injury is a touching story. The author describes her life before her husband's brain injury and what has happened in their lives since then. She covers the aftermath of the injury including recovery, defeat, more recovery, new symptoms and coping (or at least trying to) with a life so unlike what it was before.

Acquired Brain Injury - it is hard to imagine something that can happen so quickly can have such long term affects. Through her experiences, Dora Camp offers insight, help and hope to those affected by ABI (acquired brain injury). There is a lot of tragedy with such an injury but, as the author so skillfully points out, determination on the caregiver's part could make a difference for the better. "Where there's a will there's a way," as the author states.

The last few chapters offer help and advice as found in Camp's search for answers and assistance with her husband's challenges. The book is obviously well thought out.

I definitely recommend this book to family and friends who have a loved one affected by this type of injury as well as doctors, nurses and anyone else involved in the medical community.

This story focuses on the personal experience of 2 Americans and the people who befriended them and sometimes betrayed them. Most of the book deals with the 2 years they were in hiding and then follows them through their surrender to the Japanese, prison life and life in internment camps.

The author was a journalist in China when Japan invaded it and wrote bluntly of the Japanese activities there. When she and her husband were later in the Philippines and Japan invaded, they feared her past actions would cause the Japanese to treat her especially harshly and so they fled to the jungle.

The first chapter and part of the second are written in a stream of consciousness manner, but don't let that deter you. Part way in the second chapter she begins writing in a narrative style that continues throughout the book. From then on, it's hard to put down.

Originally published nearly ninety years ago, at the turn of the century, the reissue of this book will be welcomed by Montanans in particular and by all interested in the early days of Western townships in general.

Butte, Montana, in 1885, was a mining camp with a floating population estimated at around 14,000, yet within fifteen years the author of this work could boast that it had become quite a cosmopolitan metropolis of some 65,000, with twenty-eight schools, scores of fine buildings and churches.

This volume tells of the lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866; it deals extensively with mining magnates and mining activities and offers interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises of a general nature.

Particularly valuable are the illustrations, of which there are more than two hundred, all historically significant, featuring old churches, schools, mines, business buildings, downtown and residential areas, from the days when Butte had only a few scattered huts, in 1875 to 1900 when the book originally went to press.

Railroad buffs will want to turn to the chapter on "The Greatest Trans-Continental Railroad," which celebrated the comfort and ease of rail travel to the old West, with illustratinos showing the palatial observation cars, dining cars, buffet cars, all "electric lighted," on the "North Coast Limited," the "most magnificent transcontinental express running between the East and West over any line.
--- from book's back ocver