A Very Special PlaceBeech Haven Camp for Girls
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 "What
Mrs. Carney has given us here is more than just a fond remembrance of a
well-loved time and place; she has opened up a picture of an earlier,
gentler, more innocent way of life. As an ex-camp director myself, I can
easily see the way is used to be, and feel the undercurrent of love that
permeates memories of all the campers. One can only fervently hope that
the principles embodied in the Camp Creed might still inspire a modern
world in turmoil." - Stan Etkin, Professor of English Lees-McRae College Outreach Program "Louise Rosson Carney weaves together an intimate tapestry of memory in A Very Special Place. Reading this book was like being invited back into the lives of the young girls who had been campers at Beech Haven in the midst of the Great Depression: girls like Sisterbaby, who could 'shimmy' better than anyone else on Challenge Night, Jane Pryor, who claimed blue ribbons in horse shows in Linville and Blowing Rock, and Doris (Deefer) Clabaugh, who read Nietzche and Thomas Mann on top of Council Hill, shocked only when a flash of lightning and a thunder clap made 'appropriate punctuation marks for those heavy-weight Germans." What girls remember from Beech Haven is a great respect for the earth's beauty as well as a passion for independence that comes from expanding the boundaries of self. What Louise Carney celebrates here is the adventurous spirit of those young girls." - Patricia Foster, Author of A Female Education; Editor of Sister to Sister and Minding the Body "This is a delightful and evocative memoir of a place, atmosphere and moment now entirely vanished. When one thinks of all that has sprung up since World War I . . . the aeroplane, the Hitler war, penicillin, television, computer, Viet Nam . . . then works such as Louise Carney's quiet and unpretentious A Very Special Place take on importance as history, as record. Apart from that, the book is well-written and most of all, 'a good read'." - Eugene Walter, Poet, Novelist, and Editorial Associate, The Paris Review; Contributor, The Bayside Loafer; The Pepper Mill |
  Published 1996 by the Lavender Press Bay Minette, Alabama
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