# WORK AND CONTEMPLATION; AN INTERPRETATION OF WORK CAMP PHILOSOPHY IN ACTION AT COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK

WORK AND CONTEMPLATION; AN INTERPRETATION OF WORK CAMP PHILOSOPHY IN ACTION AT COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK Produced: 1941 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. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/94972

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1941
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/h-hf-238-r1)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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