Honey Hollow Camp
Honey Hollow Camp
A Photographic History
By John A. Wooden
Foreword by Bryan Farnsworth
Honey Hollow Camp is a COVID-19 lockdown passion project: a 120-page book and short documentary about my childhood home in Bolton, Vermont. Nestled in a verdant valley surrounded by Camel's Hump State Park, the iconic cabin was built in 1941 by New York City MD Carl Wurm Jr. to be his family’s remote sanctuary in the event of Nazi invasion or attack, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. An absurdly ultra-niche production for hardcore Vermont history nerds only!
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Hardcover, 120 pp. Published June, 2021.
Honey Hollow Camp
The 1940s in Color
A 23-minute mini-documentary about the early days of Honey Hollow Camp, featuring the color 16mm home movies of the Wurm family, and narrated by Edie Wurm Jensen.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021, my family and I longed to visit my childhood home in Honey Hollow, Vermont—but we were stuck a world away in California. Then a chance email from Edie Wurm Jensen, the property’s former owner, kicked off a wonderful year-long exchange about the genesis and construction of Honey Hollow Camp during World War II. As months passed under quarantine lockdown, and Edie unearthed ever more material from her family archive, what had begun as a small photo scanning project blossomed into a full-fledged historical book and short film detailing the early days of this unique U.S. National Historic Landmark.“
- John A. Wooden