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Wiawaka is a holiday house for women. It has lake front property on Lake George, New York.It is one of the few remaining fully operational vacation/retreat centers which arose out of the women's rights movement in the early part of the twentieth century.
Camp De Soto: De Soto Area Council: El Dorado: Active: Located outside Junction City, AR. Camp Orr: Natural State Council: Harrison: Active: Camp Orr has been in use since 1955 and covers nearly 600 acres of the Buffalo National River Wilderness Area. Camp Pioneer: Caddo Area Council: Hatfield: Active: Camp Preston Hunt: Caddo Area Council ...
Camp Lehman offered Jewish working women, primarily immigrants in the New York garment industry, an affordable vacation. The camp paid for their vacation and reimbursed campers for lost wages. In 1936, the agency’s name was changed to Camp Isabella Freedman in honor of the philanthropist and board member.
A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...
A retreat was even held underground in Cuba in 2012. As of 2020, there have been numerous men's and women's Emmaus retreats in Cuba. Emmaus Retreats are different from the Catholic Cursillo. Cursillo aims to form "Catholic leaders" from those Catholics already on a walk with the Lord. Emmaus reaches out to all Christians who are members of church.
Retreats were not originally seen as suitable for women, but in 1674 Catherine de Francheville , supported by the Breton Jesuit Vincent Huby , founded a retreat house for women in Vannes. This developed into a community of laywomen, who also founded a daughter house in Quimper , but were dispersed by the French Revolution.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration camp for unemployed women in Maine (1934) The She-She-She Camps were camps in the United States for unemployed women. The camps were organized by Eleanor Roosevelt as a female counterpart to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) programs designed for unemployed men. Roosevelt found that the men-only focus ...
These finds provided the physical evidence of the 1539-40 winter encampment, the first confirmed de Soto site in North America. From this location, the de Soto expedition traveled northward and westward making the first European contact with many native societies. Within two centuries, most of the southeastern native cultures were greatly ...