“He unwrapped it gently, revealing a carefully wrapped scone”

- Quoted from “Manly Hero” by Adrastus Rood

One of my favorite camping foods is the scone.  Maybe it is because I get to use fun cooking implements.  Maybe it is because the scone takes a lot of work and love to be successful.  Since we’re currently living in the dark times of the year (winter) and there is a great deal of snow outside, I thought I’d develop some recipes for next year’s camping season.  I’m starting this series of blog posts with Breakfast.  Since the Mrs. of my household loves all things pumpkin, this meal is inspired by her.

This meal has three primary parts.  I’ll start with the most complicated.

Pumpkin Espresso Scones

This is my first attempt at this recipe.  If you perfect it, please post your findings to be shared by all.

2 cups flour*
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 stick cold unsalted butter**
1  egg***
1/4 cup canned pumpkin purée
2 shots brewed espresso or extra-strong coffee – chilled
1/4 cup plain soymilk
1/4 to 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Preheat the oven and cast iron cornbread pan or 10” Dutch Oven to 375 degrees. In a bowl, mix together the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt, allspice and ginger.

Cut butter into chunks. Add to flour mixture, mix until it looks crumbly or grainy.

In another bowl, stir together egg, pumpkin, 1 shot of chilled coffee and soymilk. When well mixed, add to flour and other dry stock. Stir around the bowl, until the dough is uniformly mixed & lumpy.  Don’t mix too much.  The more you mix, the tougher the scone.

Put the scone dough in the lightly oiled cast iron pan/Dutch oven in small rounds.  Bake 18 to 22 minutes, or until the scones are slightly browned and firm in their centers. Remove from the heat and let cool for 10 min before removing.

While they are cooling, make the sugar glaze. In a mug or small cup, pour the remaining shot of espresso.  Gradually add powdered sugar to the coffee, stirring with a fork, until the glaze reaches your desired consistency (note: I like the glaze on the thin side.  This way it fills in all of the rough spots on the top of the scone). Spoon the glaze over cooled scones.

* Gluten Free Option – Click here to Use My Pastry Flour
**Vegan option – Use Earth Balance Soy Butter
*** Vegan Option – substitute 1/4 C Soy Yogurt or Applesauce

Mark’s Pumpkin Spiced Smoothie

A refreshing drink that has heart.  Serves 2

1 cup pumpkin puree
1.5 cups soy milk
2 bananas (if frozen don’t add the 1 cup of ice)
About 1 cup ice cubes
1 Tablespoon ground flaxseed
2tbs regular rolled oats
1tbs Maple Syrup
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Blend It…Drink It…Love It.

Bruleed Grapefruit

After the previous two savory menu items.  This grapefruit gives a nice contrasting acidity that revitalizes the mouth.

1 Red Grapefruit
2 Tbs Granulated Sugar

Cut the Grapefruit in half.

Evenly distribute a Tbs of sugar on the top of each half

With a butane torch, slowly melt the sugar until it is lightly caramelized.

Eat with a grapefruit spoon.

Well that’s it.  It is a great breakfast.  The best part?  Leftover scones & glaze!

Here’s some more photos to feast your eyes on.

After four weeks in front of a computer screen, the final film festival edit of the “Historic Camping & Teardrop Trailers” film done.  It is fitting that I’d finish the edit and ticket sales start on the same day.

If you’re interested in attending the 2012 Spokane International Film Festival screening of this film, you can get tickets here.

Here’s a little secret I’ve been keeping for a few months.  The “Historic Camping & Teardrop Trailer” film is making its silver-screen debut as a featured documentary the 2012 Spokane International Film Festival!

Needless to say, I am pretty stoked that the film was accepted out of all the worthy applicants (only 30 films are chosen out of hundreds) and along side films that are featured at the Sundance Film Festival.  In fact, I’m finishing a special edit of the film just for the festival.  So if you think you’ve already seen it, think again.

The film is showing at the Magic Lantern Theater in Spokane, WA at 6:45pm on February 1, 2012.  Tickets are $8.

Click here to see the details for the documentary on the SPIFF (Spokane International Film Festival) website.

To coincide with the public debut of the film, I have finished a short Making Of Video.  You’ll see Landon (cinematography) and I in all of our manly glory talking about this project.

My many thanks for those who have supported this project.  I cannot believe how far it has gone and how many schools are benefiting from your benevolence.

Here’s the Making Of Film:

Here’s the film preview:

Photo by: Dunbar Gardens

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”  - Gandhi

In my grade-school years, I remember recess time more than anything else.  Sure I have some memories of classrooms, lessons, and teachers, but let’s be honest, the playground was were it was at.  It happened that the school I attended for grades 1-8 had a huge chestnut tree on the playground.  This tree was often the focus of the students for a number of reasons.

In the fall, the tree would drop it’s summer growth of leaves onto the ground in about 1/2 a day.  This left students about two feet of orange, red, and yellow to swim through at recess.  One had to be careful though because it was a chestnut tree.

The chestnut comes in a bristling case of spikes which, when thrown by school children, can draw blood.  This leads me to some of my favorite memories.  The more pedestrian recollections are of students with cardboard pencil boxes and bags collecting the chestnuts after first peeling off the formidable barbed exterior with their feet.  Collections of chestnuts could be found everywhere in the school.

My favorite memories are the short chestnut fights.  Although I attended grade-school in an era when students could bring squirt guns to class without being accused of being a 7-year-old member of al-qai’da or a serial killer, teachers still frowned upon students impaling each other with flying chestnuts.  As a result, the fights were short or just about the right length (depending on your role in the fight – Teacher or student).  As students, we never understood the teacher’s aversion to such violent activity.  Apart from the bloodshed, personal harm, and hard feelings, it was exactly like a snowball fight.  Wait…let me correct myself.  It was exactly like a snowball fight!!!  Little did I know that a few decades later, I’d be revisiting the chestnut while I looked at snow out my back window.

A few weeks ago I was listening to the radio when I heard, for the 1,467th time, “The Christmas Song”.  This song, of course, is one of the most obnoxious Christmas tunes because it tries to be everything to everyone and, in my opinion, simply fails to capture that “Christmas Spirit” (ironic, I know).  Apparently the 1,467th listening of this song can inspire the listener to actually think about the song.

“Chestnuts roasting over an open fire…”  bla bla bla

This line of the song assumes that people ACTUALY roast chestnuts over a fire at Christmas and, one would again assume, eat them.  This struck me as odd since my only experience with chestnuts involved whistling missile-like sounds mixed with the cries of children wanting to protect what was left of their faces.  So, I started looking for answers, made a purchase, and then embarked on an adventure when I ate my first brain….uh….chestnut.  I thought I had purchased chestnuts but after opening them up, I felt I had been duped.  Honestly, they look like squirrel brains or some sort of testicle.  Not one to give up, I decided that they could make easy camp food (like popcorn) and chose to roast them in a dutch oven.  Here’s my recipe:

Roasted but need to be skinned

Dutch Oven Roasted Chestnuts

Ingredients:

•  1 lb of chestnuts
• 2 tbs of canola oil

Score the outside of the chestnut with a knife so they have an easy place to pop open.  Roast them in a preheated and oiled dutch oven at 425 degrees (F) for about 25 min.  You’ll need to shake the dutch oven occasionally to keep them from burning.

When they are cool enough to handle, peel off the brown hard outer layer.  If you wait until they are cold, you won’t be able to peel this off.

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The Final Product

After sampling theses chestnuts, half of the family thought they tasted like turkey.  The other half of us thought they’d taste better if, instead of being made of chestnut, they were made of chocolate.

This experience has lead me to assume a few things about the first humans who ate the chestnut:

1. The chestnut is ensconced in spikes
2. Spikes are usually associated with weapons
3. People who put weapons into their mouths are suicidal
4. Therefore, the first person to eat a chestnut was trying to kill himself and instead discovered a Christmas treat.

Rear of late 40s teerdrop trailer - David Quigley

“Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.”  -Jack Handey

The camping season has come to a close for us.  it is a sad time.  We spend time inside, close to each other for warmth of body and soul.  We watch the sun come up late and go down early.  We brace for 3-4 feet of snow.  We make holiday plans and cookies to go with those plans.  Even with cooler to cold weather outside, I still can’t stop wanting to go camping.  I spend time reading blogs about camping, watching National Geographic films about various natural wonders, and making plans for my next big camp trip.  This has brought me to scouring the internet in search of new and old camping information.

One of my favorite resources on the web is the US Library of Congress.  I was invited to the Library in 2009 where I met some geeky librarians (I love geeky librarians) who have shoveled information my direction for the past 2 years.  A lot of what they have sent me to sort through influenced the “Historic Camping and Teardrop Trailer” film and a lot of it I simply haven’t had time to look at yet.  In search of the next pictoral learning moment, I have spent considerable time looking at camp cookery on the Libary of Congress website (www.loc.gov).  In my browsing, I have made a short collection of my favorite camp cookery photos.  This collection has grown to such scale that I thought I might share it with my readers so you can enjoy seeing camp cookery from the past too.  The wonderful part of this is that these historic scenes are still played out across the landscapes of the world today.

It is nice to see something remain somewhat the same throughout time.  Sure the technology of cookery has changed but some of us are old school.  A fire, a cast iron pot and pan, and a healthy appitite.  Camp food is always the best because it is made with an infusion of love, nature, and sometimes personal trauma.  These are my thoughts as I sit comfortably in my house wanting to be hunkered over a fire pit like the people in some of these photos.

As a contrast, I have tossed in some of my favorite modern camp cook photos at the end just so we can see on one page, how little has changed.  Hopefully, you are now as inspired as I am to set a portion of my back yard on fire and start cooking over it.  Cheers!!

Camping party of men and women cooking at campfire and eating near tent in Indian Henry, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington. Between 1911-1920

Outdoor Kitchen. Stove in foreground and cooking utensils. Near Old Trap, North Carolina. July 1940

N.Y. Nat'l Guard, 2/21/15 - camp cooking

Migrant worker cooking meal over campfire, Edinburg, Texas. 1939

African Americans cooking in campsite, deer hanging from tree and an antelope lying by tent. 1909

Camp cook working over an open fire, cattle ranch near Spur, Texas. May 1939.

The Way they cook dinner in camp. 1861-1865

Boy Scouts cooking over open fire at Camp Ranachqua. 1919.

Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone assisting two chefs by peeling potatos at a Ford-Edison camping trip. 1921-1924

Preparing the mess. 1861-1865

Fort Sam Houston, Tex., 1911-1912: portable army bake shop in camp

"Hunting Deer." A deer hunt near Deadwood in winter 1887 and 1888. Two miners McMillan and Hubbard got their game.

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Cherries - Dennis Wilkenson

Campfire Lamb - Chazz Layne

Dutch Oven - Jon Osborne

cast iron pans in a stack - Stephani Buchman

Grilling French Toast - Will Merydith

Whole Grain Cinnamon Raisin Bread (in cast iron) - Susy Morris

Camping In Maine - Susy Morris

fritatta - Amber Karnes

Thanksgiving Dinner - summitcheese

la gran comilona - Paula Rey

This is part 2 of a two part blog on technology in camping.  If you missed part 1, you can read it here.

“Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?” - Shelley Long

As a nature enthusiast, I am reluctant to write, in public, the advantages of technology to the average camper.  However it is the social studies teacher in me that prompts me to do so.  The pioneers, trappers, missionaries, explorers, and settlers who flooded across the North American Continent used every available technology to make their journey faster, easier, lighter, warmer, and safer.  Often they had to strike an acceptable balance between the items for convenience and items that they must have but the technology was there for the taking.

Somehow it soothes my inner terror to know that others have done it too.  Yet, I still try to minimize my use of technology. When I camp, the goal is to be in nature and not “in” my technology in nature.  The current phrase  I hear nearly every day is “there’s an app for that.”  Although not always true, it does indicate a societal goal.  Taking this phrase literally, I have searched out what I think are the best current apps for campers.

This is my list of best apps for the camper.  Since I am a Droid user, I will list each app by it’s android market name.  However, I have also included iPhone/iPad equivalents for the apple crowd.

Anti Mosquito (Android Link)

You know the sound.  That high pitched irritating buzz in the ear at night.  This app can emit three different high frequencies to drive away the pesky mosquitos.  Although not completely perfect, it seems to help.  This is not within the audible range for humans and most animals so it is pretty safe to use in the wilderness.  iPhone Equivalent is “Bug Spray”

Brightest Flashlight (Android Link)

Who hasn’t been caught without a flashlight.  Maybe it is the midnight trip to the outhouse or you let someone borrow yours and now find yourself in the dark.  This app turns your phone into a high beamed flashlight.  It turns on your LED flash to a constant high and can also crank up your screen too max brightness.  Most of us use our phones as a light anyhow.  This simply steps it up a notch.  The iphone equivalent is “Flashlight”

AR First Aid (Android Link)

I was once camping when my dad and I came across an older gentleman who was sweating on a cool day and had really swollen legs.  Thankfully, we helped him find his family and they got him medical treatment.  What if we hadn’t found his family?  Based on his symptoms, could we have done more on site with this app?  Of course you should take a full blown First aid & CPR class yearly (at the very least).  In addition to that professional training, this app may help remind you of your First aid & CPR class material when you suddenly find yourself in a position to give aid.  The iPhone equivalent is “ResQr First Aid & CPR Coach“.   *this app should only be used by someone with training.

US Army Survival Guide (Android Link)

A spectacular guide that has developed over decades.  It offers you all you need to know about shelters, navigation, some basic first aid, collecting water, building fires, and much much more.  This is a MUST have for every camper.  The iPhone equivalent “Army Survival”

Google Sky Maps (Android Link)

When the city lights have faded away and the sky lights up with millions of stars you rarely see, do you know what you’re looking at?  This app helps you identify constellations, stars, and other celestial bodies.  Simply install and hold your phone’s back facing the sky.  It will map what you’re looking at.  A great camping tool for those curious about the heavens.  It is also a great educational tool for kids on a camp trip or at school.  iPhone Equivalent “Starmap”

RunKeeper (Android Link)

This is one of my favorite apps.  I use it all the time.  This is a tool that maps your physical movement, charts your speeds, and saves your data for later review.  It requires the GPS on your phone to be on so it can use up a bit more of your battery than if the GPS were off.   Don’t be fooled by this app’s name.  RunKeeper tracks a wide range of outdoor activities:  Walking, running, swimming, biking, hiking, skating, skiing, snowboarding, etc.  As a teacher, I spend most of my work day on my feet.  Out of curiousity, I turned run keeper on for a day to see how far I walk in a day at work (9.43 miles).  The result wasn’t as much as I have done in the past at work but still respectable.  RunKeeper is also avalibale for iPhone.

The Weather Channel App (Android Link)

One of the great joys of camping is being out in nature.  However, a little heads up on the weather conditions may be a good idea while before putting your towel out to dry on a line.  The weather channel has a great app that will map where you are and give you your current and expected weather conditions.  Sure, Android and iPhone already have their own weather app but it is junk compared with this one.  The iPhone Link.

REI Apps (Android & iPhone Link)

This link is really to two seperate apps.  The first is their storefront app.  Even if you don’t shop at REI that often, they have lots of specs on outdoor camping gear that you usually won’t find when you’re standing at the shelf.  You can search REI inventory, scan items to find prices, and make purchases.

A second app is a snow report app.  This is great for skiers.  In fact, a moment ago I just got an alert on my phone that one of my favorite mountains got 10″ of snow last night.  As a camper this could also be helpful.  Knowing there is snow in the mountains could change our camping and allow us to prepare to camp in the snow (so much fun!) or wimp out and go home.

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So there you have it!  Those are my favorite phone apps for campers.  I’m sure there will be more in the future but this is a great starting point for any camper.

Happy Camping!!

If you know of other great apps for campers out there, please share it in the comment section below.

Photo courtesy of Chapendra

“If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0″

As the child of an Engineer and the grandchild of a clever inventor, I have geek running all through my blood.  Now before your stereotypes of Steves (Jobs, Wozniak, Urkle) flood your mind, I mean that I am interested in computing, new media, and technical skills and imagination.  I do have a social life.  I don’t live in my parent’s basement -anymore. I did make my own Darth Vader outfit but I still managed to get married.  Technology is why I tinker and dream about what could be done.

When I imagine my perfect camping adventure, it doesn’t involve all of those things which typically come with a camping trip.  You know what I mean…the unexpected.  Maybe it is a flat tire, a forgotten item, a change in weather patterns, being attacked by wildlife, injuries, or getting lost.  I will likely never go on a perfect camping trip (which is partly why it is fun) but there are technological tools that can help make a trip a bit smoother.

As a teardrop camper, I don’t want every convenience in life.  If I wanted that, I’d buy a big RV and stay on relatively well paved roads.  However, there is just enough Robert Frost in me to seek rare and new adventures.  This is why I don’t travel with a TV and a large selection of movies.  I don’t spend a camping trip listening to music.  My goal is to be in nature and to enjoy the solitude and therapy that nature provides.  I do use technology to help but not to distract.  After all, “there is a time and a place for everything under heaven.”

If you need some helpful technology for camping, I’ve made a list of the things I like.  You can add to this list by making a comment or just copy it off and use it as your own.

Enjoy!

Devices

Photo Courtesy of Mike Joa

 The Camera

Besides food and clothing, my favorite item to take camping is a camera.  Sure there are the beautiful flowers, animals, and sunsets but my interest is people.  To remember friends, family, and fellow campers and the stories is remembering the core of every camping trip.  Some will use their phone cameras or point and shoot models.  For me, image quality is quite important so it is an SLR that shoots both stills and a compressed HD video.  I only have one warning about the camera for the techy camper.  Don’t let it take over the trip.  To be so excited about the “sweet blog post” that will come from the camp-out should not be the purpose of the camp-out.  Let the enjoyment of the experience be the inspiration to document those valuable moments.

Photo by mccun934

Amazon Kindle

I love reading while camping.  However, since I read several books at a time, I don’t like packing them all with me.  The Kindle is great for camping because it has a long battery life (about a month) and uses digital ink technology (not LEDs like other tablets) and is easy to read in any light conditions.  If it is lost, stolen, or damaged on a camp-out, it is easily replaced with all of the books installed on the new unit (including where you left off reading before disaster struck).  Replacement is pretty inexpensive -compared to other tablet options- as well.  If you’re into reading more than playing Angry Birds, this is a great device for you.

ReVIVE Solar Charger

Phones, cameras, tablets, etc all run low on battery power eventually.  Unless there are plans to install a large solar panel on your teardrop, this little device will take care of most small device power needs.  For me, keeping my camera batteries charged is important because I love to remember the nature that I encounter while camping.  This is an economical & small solution.

 Personal Locator Beacon

This is probably a good device to have on any camping trip. For the backwoods or overland camper, this is a must have.  Many tragedies could be avoided if only people had these (e.g. “Into the Wild”).  If lost, turn it on and a distress signal with GPS coordinates is transmitted for rescue personnel.

Photo courtesy of HaraWish

GPS

As convenient as these units are for our automobiles, the units for cars are not always camper friendly.  Most will only have road maps in them and not give additional details about altitude and topography.  They are also usually too big to easily carry along on a hike.  A good small GPS is a great addition for the techno camper.  It can be fastened to a wrist or belt and off you go for a hike.  It will chart how far a hike is, how long it has taken, and how to get back.  Getting a GPS could save lives and that is the best reason to have one.

Photo Courtesy of Hammer51012

Radios

When camping with a group of people it is handy to have a quick way to communicate. Maybe the kids are out for a mountain bike ride or a meal is ready and quick communication is necessary. These radios can ease communication problems during a camp-out.

If you’re seriously wanting to enter the realm of geek, look into getting a HAM radio license & radio.  I have enjoyed being able to communicate long distances (even with other nations) while camping because of my HAM radio.  When rescue operations are organized, a HAM radio operator can be a vital. Fires, injuries, and other emergency situations are within the realm of any camping trip.  Long distance communication is a good asset in those times.

Photo courtesy of Florin Hatmanu

Data Phone

I’ll admit it.  I was not an early adopter in the product life cycle of the data phone.  However, after getting mine, I realize how stinking useful this device is.  It isn’t just for gaming and shooting video or photos to be posted on my favorite social networks.  These devices can be powerful tools for campers. In part 2.0 of the techy-camper blog posts I will focus on the data phone and how many ways it can helpful on a camping experience better.

Apologetics

Before you go thinking that I have a belt covered with electronics and LED lights that make me look like a Christmas tree, I need to say that I have these items while camping but rarely use them.  For safety or convenince I occasionally access them.  Most of the time it is just me, family, friends, a book, and the elements!

OH, and my camera.

 Read Part 2 Here

“The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini.  Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables.  At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.”  -  Dave Barry

Every gardener who is foolish enough to go camping, while leaving their zucchini plants to their own devices, knows the shock experienced upon returning home to find Jabba-the-Hut-sized zucchini congregating in their garden.  It is like they suddenly turned green, got angry, and swelled to gigantic proportions.  I am convinced that the author of “The Hulk” owned a zucchini plant.

Upon returning from a recent camping excursion, we found two zucchini in our backyard that were waiting for Lewis and Clark to hollow them out and float them down a river.  Such massive squash are less than desirable because their seeds are inedible.  I was left with a question:

“What do I do with two zucchinis that are so large they have their own gravitational pull?”

The Iron Chef had the answer.  I don’t know which Iron Chef on the Food Network it was but one of them had cucumbers (also long and green!).  That chef had a clever kitchen device that turned the cucumber into long round noodle like strands.  Then the chef used that “noodle” to garnish a dish.

So I thought, “why not try the same with my zucchini?”

I don’t have an interest in buying a fancy cooking tool so I can make a dish once so  I made a broad zucchini noodle using a simple peeler.  After adding other ingredients from our garden, I had an actual dish.  It was delicious!

This is great summer camping food.  None of the ingredients will explode, bruise beyond recognition, or otherwise go bad while riding in the cooler while on your camping adventure.  Plus, it is mighty good food.  Senior Management and I commented several times about how it tasted very similar to real pasta.

Camp Friendly Garden “Pasta”

Ingredients:

• 2 large Zucchini (peeled into broad noodles)
• 1.5 tsp red pepper flakes
•  2 Tbs Olive Oil
• 15 kalamata olives (diced)
• 1/2 sweet white onion (diced)
• 1 carrot (shredded)
• 1/8 C mozzarella cheese (shredded)
• 2 Roma Tomatoes (chunked)
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• Salt & Pepper to Taste

Process:

In a frying pan, fry the onions and carrots in the olive oil until the onions start to soften.  Then add the red pepper flakes, kalamata olives, and lemon juice.  Mix the ingredients until they start to lose a little bit of liquid.  Toss in the zucchini “noodles”, mix, and cover the pan.  This will steam the zucchini (about 3-5 min).  Once the zucchini start to turn bright green, pull everything off of the heat and top with the mozzarella cheese and tomato chunks.

EAT!

It may seem strange but I think an olive, avocado, and olive oil pesto would really be a great topper for this pasta.  Give it a shot and let me know what you think.

Happy Camping!  Remember, the next time you feel an earthquake, it is just another zucchini being born.

The Geek

Larry sent a physical copy of RV Magazine to me a few months ago when we were working together on my teardrop film project. AT LAST, RV magazine has published it online.

It was an honor to have Larry’s help with the film and to hear and read all of his family’s stories about their vintage camping set-up.

If you have seen my film and liked the vintage footage and photos from Larry’s family, you’ll love this article. It has more photos that weren’t featured in my film.

 Read the article here

Cheers!

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke 

Amazon.com has approved my application for Video On Demand (VOD) at Amazon.com.  If you’re a techy geek like me, you can download the film, stream it online, have it sent to your TiVo or other digital devices.  This way you can save some storage space in the house and still enjoy the film!  Isn’t technology great sometimes.

You can still buy a DVD or Blu-ray copy of the film too!

Click HERE to download the film from Amazon.com

Click HERE to buy a DVD or Blu-ray copy with the original art dust-jacket and disc label.

All sales help send free copies to High school social study teachers and to create new projects like this one.  So far, I’ve been able to send out 15 free copies!

Happy Camping!