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Taylor Camp     by John Wehrheim
In 1969, thirteen young mainlanders – refugees from campus riots, Vietnam War protests and police brutality – fled to Kauai. Before long this little tribe of men, women and children were arrested and sentenced to ninety days hard labor for having no money and no home. Island resident Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bailed out the group and invited them to camp on his vacant ocean front land. Howard then left them on their own, without any restrictions, regulations or supervision. Soon waves of hippies, surfers and troubled Vietnam vets found their way to this clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house village at the end of the road on the island's North Shore.

In 1977, the government condemned the village to make way for a State park. Within a few years the jungle reclaimed Taylor Camp, leaving little but memories of "the best days of our lives".

TAYLOR CAMP reveals a community that created order without rules, rejecting materialism for the healing power of nature. We come to understand the significance Taylor Camp's eight-year existence through interviews made 30-years later after the film makers tracked down the campers, their neighbors and the government officials who finally got rid of them.

Taylor Camp   -  THE MOVIE
Producer - John Wehrheim     Director - Robert C. Stone     Co-Producer - Thomas Vendetti
“Taylor Camp is the ultimate hippie fantasy retold three decades later in a moving and magical documentary. Don’t miss it!”   -- Steven Petrow, The Huffington Post

“Taylor Camp is terrific. You know a film is going to bring you somewhere special when it opens with "In A Gadda Da Vida" then takes you on a visual and musical journey to a magical place in time that so many of us still long for. I didn't want it to end.”   --Blaise Noto, Unit Publicist, The Kite Runner

"I LOVED Taylor Camp! Beautifully made and vividly told, the story is balanced and without sentimentality. The good, the bad and the ugly. But the idealism shone through very brightly."   --Michael Singer, Author of Film Directors: A Complete Guide

"Deeply personal, Taylor Camp documents a time and place on Kauai that some reviled, some adored. The film itself is naked, taking on the dark side of Taylor Camp as well as the sweet memories of golden days, great surf and good friends.   -- Lee Cataluna, Honolulu Advertiser

“Impressive! A real time capsule of an era and a place - humane and atmospheric. I love the Before and After faces and bodies, the theme of violated Eden, or After the Fall...”   -- Paul Theroux, Author of Great Railway Bazaar, Mosquito Coast

The Grand Canyon    AN ARTIST'S VIEW
by Charles Craighead          illustrated by John D. Dawson
You are probably already familiar with the work of Hilo artist John D. Dawson. Whether through his Nature In America stamp series for the U.S. Postal service, his work with National Geographic Magazine, Audubon Society, United Nations, or even his illustrations of Morris the Cat on your grocery store shelves, this prolific artist is a part of the American Landscape. Locally, his work can be seen in educational installations at the I'miloa Astronomy Center and the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park visitor center.

On a dream assignment, floating for nine days on a Colorado River trip in the Grand Canyon, John met author and renowned wildlife photographer and cinematographer Charles Craighead, whose film projects have included National Geographic television specials and PBS's Nature. The two became close friends and a collaboration was born. They returned to the park a number of times and finally completed the project that became The Grand Canyon, An Artist's View.

This comprehensive work takes the reader on an intimate journey along the rim, down the trails, and into the hidden recesses of the Grand Canyon along the spectacular sweep of the Colorado River. It is one of the most spectacular of adventures.

John Dawson’s painstaking, true-to-life illustrative techniques, combined with the sensitive interpretative text of naturalist Charles Craighead, bring the reader face to face with the wildlife, the plant life, the immense scope and the tiniest environmental detail contained in one of the last true wonders of the world. This volume is a true collector’s edition to be treasured throughout the years.

The Boiling Frog
AND OTHER EVOLUTIONARY PARABLES     by Stephen Freedman
Two and a half thousand years ago, Aesop told the fable of a dog chasing a rabbit: Fruitlessly the dog surrenders, exhausted and a shepherd comments: “What a pathetic creature you are, who cannot even catch a rabbit!” The prostrate dog replies, “Remember shepherd, while I am running for my dinner, the rabbit is running for his life!” On this Earth we have become the proverbial rabbits. Our survival depends upon our responses to the growing population crisis and the calamities it triggers – resource depletion, global warming, famine and disease. If we fail to adapt, the world will not come to an end, but we will. We are running for our lives.

The Whale at the End of the Universe    
by Stephen Freedman     illustrated by Ken Charon
Both of my daughters, Monique and Bella, love stories. When they were little they were insatiable. Anytime we’d go anywhere in the car they’d demand a story–not just any story, but a story with a theme featuring animals and a little girl. This is one of the many stories I made up as we drove to or from school in the rainforests of our Hawaii home.  —Stephen Freedman

NEW!
Off The Grid And Over The Hill  by Lynne Farr
OFF THE GRID AND OVER THE HILL is a sequel to the book OFF THE GRID WITHOUT A PADDLE. It continues the true story of two greenhorns, husband and wife, who ditched downtown Los Angeles for do-it-yourself country life, off the grid, in a mountain rainforest in rural Hawaii. By now they’ve spent five-plus years without the comforts of urban existence, but they’re not getting any younger. This book asks: How old do you have to be before living off the grid becomes a pain in your Paradise? More urgently: How old is OLD? Whether or not the answers to these questions are high on your list, you’ll get some laughs out of their ongoing adventures.

Off The Grid Without A Paddle  by Lynne Farr
OFF THE GRID WITHOUT A PADDLE is the true story of two greenhorns, escapees from the gritty City of Los Angeles, who buy a home off the grid in a tropical mountain rainforest in rural Hawaii, with fantasies of utopia and dreams of self-sufficiency, but no real idea of what they're getting into.
 

In their first year in an unfamiliar new world, the high-tech, low tech, no-tech learning curve is steep and hilarious: exasperating, exhilarating...exciting!

Whether or not you share the dream of moving off the grid, you'll get a laugh out of their unexpected adventures.

Dreamgirl     by Stephen Freedman
A book for parents about making books for children
 

“By the time my daughter, Olivia was four years old. I’d written five or six little books for her. Each had become as important to her as Peter Pan, or The Wizard of Oz. They were tiny classics designed exclusively for her experiences. But there was no denying their impact, and the importance of these stories in our lives. They helped us to communicate and transcend issues which might otherwise have stopped us...”                                       
—Stephen Freedman

This is much more than a book about making books for children. It is a window into timeless issues of growing up. It is about intimacy, about AIDS, and about transcendence. It is a personal story of our time. And it is also about making books for children.

“Stephen has produced a manual for parenting…an approach with universal application. Both parent and child benefit, for as the parents nurture and encourage their child’s development by placing his or her experiences in a larger context in the stones, they cannot help but revisit and learn from their own childhood experiences…then the way is clear for a closer, more natural relationship between parent and child: and such relationships are a true source of the joy which human beings are capable of feeling.”     — Jonathan Christie, MFCC