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Tech 4 Kids: Increasing Opportunities For Children With Disabilities To Explore Technical Theatre Arts, Kaitlyn Allemand, Angela Blackwell, Erik Pérez Apr 2023

Tech 4 Kids: Increasing Opportunities For Children With Disabilities To Explore Technical Theatre Arts, Kaitlyn Allemand, Angela Blackwell, Erik Pérez

Spring 2023 Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium

This poster presentation is about a four-week program for children with disabilities named Tech 4 Kids. The program focused on expanding opportunities for a creative outlet and improving participants' self-competence, creativity, well-being, and social-emotional skills through activities surrounding the stage, set, lighting, props, and costuming.


Marginalized Populations In Adirondack History, Matthew Golebiewski Jan 2019

Marginalized Populations In Adirondack History, Matthew Golebiewski

2019 Diversity and Inclusion Certification Course

The Adirondacks, a mountainous wilderness located in New York State, fundamentally changed in the late 19th century. Expanding rail lines, the publication of travel guides, and other economic and social factors ushered in a new era of tourism and development. As more travel routes opened towns up to settlement and growth, droves of new visitors followed suit. The era of great camps built by Gilded-Age industrialists further brought in wealthy seasonal residents and tourists alike. Recreational outdoor activities were the other part of this boom, with hiking being formally recognized as such around the turn of the 20th century. (1) …


Ms-184: Henry Louis Baugher, Class Of 1857, Travel Diary, Elizabeth P. Steinhour Aug 2015

Ms-184: Henry Louis Baugher, Class Of 1857, Travel Diary, Elizabeth P. Steinhour

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The diary consists of one 351 page travel journal including 7 pages of plant samples included at the end of the diary. He wrote about churches he attended in Europe, the scenery, hikes, and historical events including the French Revolution in Paris and the Glencoe Massacre in the Scottish Highlands.

Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/.


Ms-136: Temma Berg Collection, Julia D. Marshella Apr 2013

Ms-136: Temma Berg Collection, Julia D. Marshella

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This collection contains 107 letters, postcards and telegrams from Temma Berg in Europe, to her parents, Selma and Charles Silverstein, in Philadelphia. While the majority of the letters are sent from her home in Baarn, Holland, a few were sent from London. The postcards were sent from places they visited during their travels, including Amsterdam, Belgium, Germany, London, Paris and Israel.

Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about …


Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, And The Small-Bore Engine, Paul R. Josephson Jan 2007

Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, And The Small-Bore Engine, Paul R. Josephson

Faculty Books

From dirt bikes and jet skis to weed wackers and snowblowers, machines powered by small gas engines have become a permanent—and loud—fixture in American culture. But fifty years of high-speed fun and pristine lawns have not come without cost.

In the first comprehensive history of the small-bore engine and the technology it powers, Paul R. Josephson explores the political, environmental, and public health issues surrounding one of America's most dangerous pastimes. Each chapter tells the story of an ecosystem within the United States and the devices that wreak havoc on it—personal watercraft (PWCs) on inland lakes and rivers; all-terrain vehicles …


Bar Harbor, F. Marion Crawford Jan 1896

Bar Harbor, F. Marion Crawford

Maine Collection

Bar Harbor

by Francis Marion Crawford. Illustrated by C.S. Reinhart.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1896.

American Summer Resorts



Annual Encampment Reply Card, Phi Sigma Jan 1891

Annual Encampment Reply Card, Phi Sigma

Documents

A formal invitation and RSVP card to the Annual Encampment of the Phi Sigma Camping Club in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin


Articles Of Association, Phi Sigma Jan 1891

Articles Of Association, Phi Sigma

Documents

After the July 1890 camping trip, Phi Sigma members incorporated an official Phi Sigma Camping Club by 1891.


The History Of Phi Sigma Camp At Twin Lakes, From July 1st To July 15th, 1890, Phi Sigma, Mary I. Lyman Jul 1890

The History Of Phi Sigma Camp At Twin Lakes, From July 1st To July 15th, 1890, Phi Sigma, Mary I. Lyman

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At the July 22, 1890 meeting of the Chicago-based literary society, Phi Sigma, Mary I. Lyman presented her paper on the group's camping trip to Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.