Update #17: Woo hoo! Fundraising done, $2046 Raised!
Now, on to Camp Snipesville!
So far, we have 18 kids registered (out of a possible 25) of whom 9 are receiving full or partial scholarships, thanks to you.
I look forward to keeping you posted on our progress.
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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 1, 2009.
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*4 X 6 Photo of campers and staff, signed by director *Autographed and inscribed copy of Annette's first time-travel novel for kids, Don't Know Where, Don't Know When (The Snipesville Chronicles, Book 1.) *Letter of thanks from director *Listed on online Wall of Friends.
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*8 x 10 photo of campers and staff, signed by director *Autographed and inscribed copy of Annette's first time-travel novel for kids, Don't Know Where, Don't Know When (The Snipesville Chronicles, Book 1.) *Authentic wartime British coin. *Letter of thanks from director *Listed on online Wall of Friends.
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*Hand-drawn picture by and letter of thanks from sponsored child. *Autographed and inscribed copies of Annette's time-travel novels for kids, The Snipesville Chronicles, Book 1, Don't Know Where, Don't Know When (2007) and, on release in November, Book 2: A Different Day, A Different Destiny. *8 x 10 Photo of campers and staff, signed by director, and with kids holding up a sign thanking you. *Authentic wartime British coin. *Letter of thanks from director *Listed on online Wall of Friends.
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*Facsimile WWII ration book. *Autographed and inscribed copies of Annette's time-travel novels for kids, The Snipesville Chronicles, Book 1, Don't Know Where, Don't Know When (2007) and, on release in November, Book 2: A Different Day, A Different Destiny. *Hand-drawn picture by and letter of thanks from sponsored child. *8 x 10 Photo of campers and staff, signed by director, and with kids holding up a sign thanking you. *Authentic wartime British coin. *Letter of thanks from director *Listed on online Wall of Friends.
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I was born in Scotland, and raised in a mostly working-class town in England. Two years ago, even though I flatter myself that I'm a pretty darn good historian, I quit my job as a tenured professor of early American history to work with kids in rural Georgia. This isn't quite as nuts as it sounds: I had been creating kids' "time travel" programs for some time (most notably TimeShop, which was profiled in an Associated Press article three years ago), and I finally decided I would rather work with enthusiastic nine-year-olds than burnt-out nineteen-year-olds.
I'm also the author of *Don't Know Where, Don't Know When*, and * A Different Day, A Different Destiny*, which are the first two books in my Snipesville Chronicles series. They're about three kids from a small town in Georgia who time-travel in American and British history. So, confusingly, the books are the fictional version of Camp Snipesville, my current time-travel camp for kids. Or maybe they're fiction about fiction? Whoa.
Together with artist Lindsey Jenkins and science teacher Brett Walden (both recent alumni of the university at which I used to teach), I've recently started up Imaginative Journeys, a non-profit that creates and runs educational day camps for children in South Georgia, and offers training for college students and recent graduates interested in seeding similar programs elsewhere. We're committed to remaining small, and we have no suits on board... But our dream is to hire an office crone to deal with paperwork.
Another goal: Making all our programs as accessible as possible to interested kids, regardless of their parents' income.
