WORK AND CONTEMPLATION; AN INTERPRETATION OF WORK CAMP PHILOSOPHY IN ACTION AT COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK Reel 1 · Part 1

Description

Documentary: On college student work campers from the Hartwick Seminary and the farmers' cooperative movement in Cooperstown. Reel 1: Illustrates poor farmland. Discusses development of the cooperative movement under the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service at the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, and work camper recruitment at the seminary. Farmers and campers build a saw mill. Reel 2: Camp life, meditation, and discussion of Friends' philosophy. Forest Service official explains the campers' project. Campers build storage shed, perform farm chores, and discuss personal benefits from the work camp.

Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups