Campsite

left with no work and were forced to live in camps with terrible living conditions. The family did eventually did find work picking peaches, but were treated more like prisoners than free workers. People weren't allowed to walk around freely in the campsite and were paid poorly. Okies weren't allowed to stand up for themselves and those who did were quickly threatened by law…

Cicadas Camp Cornhusker, ‘the happiest place on earth’ as many people call it, including myself. There is so much to see and do, hiking in the thick bristled woods to hear the water crash at Angel's or Devil’s falls, to canoe at Lake Abel where the breeze gives a sense of freedom, and to be around a crazy group of staff members. As staff members, we do a lot of crazy things, for starters we work at a boy scout camp. But whether it’s staying up late to hug a windmill off of camp property of even…

On June 5, 2002, Elizabeth Smart said, “Goodnight” to her family and rested her head on her pillow. Just a few hours later, Smart would wake up with a cold knife on her throat and a stranger standing above her. As she was dragged out of bed and down the hallway of her two- story home, she internally screamed and pleaded for someone to save her. Just when she thought she would actually scream, her captor, Brian David Mitchell, bent over and whispered in her ear. “If you make a sound, if you do…

aimlessly at first, climbing on large boulders like young children and weaving our way through the tall pine trees. We talked quietly and walked along logs until we came across the start of a wide path that led to the top of one of the mountains near our campsite. We decided to follow the dirt path and its many switch backs up the steep slope.…

After the Vietnam War many former-soldiers came back from combat with stories that would bewilder the psyche of any common citizen. These stories highlight the extreme difference between the lives of a soldier both at home, and in the horrific situations of a field of combat. In Tim O’ Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried accurately conveys the removal that former soldiers felt by being ripped away from home by explaining with exquisite word choice and diction, the fear and horror that young…

When Elizabeth Van Lew, a famous Northern spy during the Civil War, died on September 23, 1900, she left behind a powerful summary of what it is like to be a spy on her graveyard. It reads, “She risked everything that is dear to man- friends, fortune, comfort, health, life itself, as for the one absorbing desire of her heart, that slavery be abolished and the Union be preserved.” (Zeinert 147) This quote draws attention to the extent to what one does as a spy. It highlights the costs and…

weeks in a camp site or in a forest trying to, according to Mr. Kocher, “enjoy the beauty of nature, stay away from electronic devices and live a real life.” This year, without the adults, these three friends pitched camp in West Fork, a primitive campsite in North…

Natalia were engaged and were going to get married on June 12th 1988. The night of the 27th at about 11:30 p.m. Ethan, Owen, and Natalia were sitting around a campfire and having a good time. A man wearing a red and black coat walked into their campsite. “Have you seen my dog?” the mysterious guy asked “No we have not seen a dog.” Owen…

Natural Beauty has always been a staple in my life. It comes from the countless treks around the country with my grandparents. My grandma firmly believed that a summer should never be spent idle at home; she believed that we should be seeing the Natural Beauty of the United States of America. Though my relationship with Natural Beauty comes from this exposure to it. Nature’s ability to surprise me and to make me contemplate my place in the world is the true reason for my strong relationship with…

There I was, sweat dripping into my eyes, my heart pounding out of my chest, with legs that felt barely recognizable to the rest of my body. Yet there I was, enjoying the feeling. How did this happen? How did the girl, who had never set foot into a gym, end up training for a half marathon? I was never the most athletic person. To be fair, I always enjoyed leisurely exercise, like going on a hike on the weekends, or canoeing at my cottage, but never came close to a “jock”. So when I started to…