The Weekly Sam: Is Public Education Harming Your Child
Back in the late 1980s, when I first met Sam Blumenfeld, he told me that it was a sinful to place Children in public schools. Sam was ahead of his time. Here is a lecture he gave on the subject from 1986:
The Weekly Sam: Marlowe vs. Shakespeare
Sam Blumenfeld loved Shakespeare. His library contained collections of Shakespeare’s plays, books about Shakespeare, and thanks to the influence of Calvin Hoffman, books about the authorship of Shakespeare. But it wasn’t until 2008, when he published “The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection A New Study on the Authorship Question.” We recently converted and uploaded to our YouTube Channel a presentation he gave prior to the book’s publication:
While Camp Constitution does not take a position of the authorship controversy, Sam makes an excellent case for Christopher Marlowe. Sam believed that next to the King James Bible, Shakespeare’s works were the best in the English language, and believed that its author should be known.
Sam left us a rich legacy and we make it available as a free on-line resource-the Sam Blumenfeld Archives: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/
Camp Constitution at the Mass Homeschool Organization of Parent Educators’ 30th Annual Convention
For the 9th year in a row, Camp Constitution had a vendor table at the Massachusetts Homeschool of Parent Educator’s (Mass HOPE) https://masshope.org/ annual convention which was held from Friday-Saturday April 26-27 in Worcester, MA. Our goals at this event are to promote our annual family camp, introduce them to the Samuel Blumenfeld Archives, and help the attendees learn about the U.S Constitution, and important issues that impact the family. We had many attendees stop by our table, take our 10 question quiz, write their names with our quill pen. obtain books from Camp Constitution Press and other publications, and learn about Camp Constitution’s activities. We made some new friends, and expect some folks from this convention to attend our family camp.
We also had the opportunity to interview Josh Moore and Tiffany Johnson of the Patriot Initiative and Mark Renehan and “Dr. Benjamin Franklin” of Step Up America.
A special thanks to David Krutov for his help working the table
Earth Day and Lenin’s Birthday– A Coincidence?
Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970, the 100 anniversary of the birthday of Vladimir Lenin-one of the 20th Century’s most repulsive persons. Was it a coincidence or deliberate. If Earth Day was founded by advocates of liberty and limited government, the day would have been designated “Wise Use Day” or Good Stewardship Day.” Sadly, the folks who gave us Earth Day were not. The late Gary Allen, who authored “None Dare Call it Conspiracy,” “Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask” and “The Rockefeller File,” wrote a monthly article for a now-defunct magazine called “American Opinion.” In May of 1970, he wrote an article entitled Ecology Government Control of the Environment which exposed the people and organizations behind Earth Day. We make that timeless article available in PDF format: https://s3.amazonaws.com/camppictures/CampArchive/Domestic/Ecology.pdf
The Weekly Sam: A History of Arithmetic and The Diffrence Between Arithmetic and Math
Camp Constitution is converting Sam Blumenfeld’s audios available on his archives to YouTube videos giving his message a much wider audience. This is the latest: Arithmetic and the History of Arithmetic:
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None Dare Call It Conspiracy But We Can Call It The Deep State
Back in 1972, when it was politically unfashionable to mention, in “polite company,” the influence of the powerful foundations and individuals who were working towards the creation of what George H.W. Bush called the “New World Order, Gary Allen authored None Dare Call Conspiracy. This mass market paperback, with less than 100 pages, had dozens of printing and millions of copies were distributed. Today, it is still selling well on Amazon. It is, no doubt, one of the most influential books published in the last 50 years. Camp Constitution has the book available as a download: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/None-Dare-Call-It-Conspiracy.pdf
In addition to the book, we have a speech delivered by Gary on the subject archived on our Podomatic page:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2017-10-01T18_26_18-07_00
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The Battle of Lexington
For the past 20 years, I have attended the Battle of Lexington reenactment which takes place on Patriot’s Day-a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine. Over the years, I have brought family members, friends, homeschoolers, and since 2009, Camp Constitution campers and staff. Since the creation our YouTube channel, we have videotaped the event, and this year was no exception. Patriot’s Day falls on a Monday in the week of the actual date of the event, April 19. The reenactment, true to the actual time of the battle, takes place at 5:30 AM. I recommend that attending the reenactment be placed high on your “bucket list.” Camp Constitution will always honor the memory of the brave men who answered the alarm.
The Weekly Sam: The Benefits of Private and Home Schools
Sam Blumenfeld was a fixture at homeschool conferences. Here is a lecture Sam gave to a group in the early 1990s on the benefits of private Christian and home schools.
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Camp Constitution’s Report for the 1st Quarter of 2019
Camp Constitution’s Report for the 1st Quarter of 2019
YouTube Channel: We reached one million views in early March, and average over 1.200 views per day with close to 4,500 subscribers. Debbie Bacigalupi’s class on Agenda 21 from last year’s camp is one of the top performers with 50,000 views. We are converting many of Sam Blumenfeld’s audios from the archive and uploading them on our channel.
The Sam Blumenfeld Archive: 475,000 visits. 34,000 Alpha-Phonics downloaded, and 4,500 Alpha-Phonics Instructions Workbook downloaded. Thanks to the efforts of our webmaster Eric Conover, we wrote a foreword to the “Alpha-Phonics” where we suggested that viewers make donations and provided a link to our PayPal account.
Podomatic: We are usually in the top 10 for the “conservative right” category which has about 160 shows. We had 316 downloads of our radio show, and over 1,800 visits
Facebook Page: We have over 1,800 people who like our page, and reach an average of 400 per week.
Speaker’s Bureau: We had nine speaking engagements where we conducted power point presentations on Agenda 21, the plastic bag ban, the U.S. Constitution, and the Dangers of an Article V Convention. These presentations were conducted in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Virginia. We booked approximately 12 engagements over the next few months
Information Tables: We had information tables at several events including the Homeschoolers of Maine’s Annual Convention where we participated in a workshop.
Camp Constitution Press: Thanks to one of our supporters, we reprinted ElementaryCatechism on the U.S. Constitution with a foreword by Ruth Harper. We recently found an unpublished manuscript by Sam Blumenfeld entitled School-Induced Dyslexia and How It Deforms a Child’s Brain, and plan to put it in print over the next few months.
Camp Constitution Book Sales: We raised approximately $1,000 from our sale of donated books on Amazon and Facebook, and had numerous books donated to us over the past quarter. We updated our on-line book store or shop and will be adding to the inventory over the next few months.
Camp Constitution Media: We attended and videotaped the annual Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House hosted by the Massachusetts Family Institute, a presentation on the life of Joseph Warren by historian Christian Di Spina sponsored by the Sons of the Revolution, and a press conference we sponsored with Professor Willie Soon, and Joe D’Aleo, co-founder of the Weather Channel.
Article V Convention: With Norman Tregenza’s help, we organized a group of people to testify in favor of a New Hampshire resolution to rescind its state’s Article V application. While the resolution was tabled, we got word that it has a good change of passing it next year. We distributed literature on the problems of an Article V Convention at the Pennsylvania State House, and gave a presentation on the subject to a well-attended group in Virginia. We sent out E-mail alerts to our supporters around the country, and on our Camp Constitution Radio Show and the radio shows we guest host, we interviewed experts on Article V including Robert Brown and Joe Wolverton.
Camp Constitution in the News: Thanks to Professor Soon’s influence in the “climate realism” community, a letter to the editor I wrote on Boston’s plastic bag ban, was turned into an article and published on approximately 15 on-line sources including the Heartland Institute, CFACT and Canada Free Press. It also appeared as a front page story in a Boston newspaper. Our Agenda 21 Cable TV interview in Rutland, Vermont was covered by several media outlets. Our lawsuit against the City of Boston generated an article on World Net Daily, and the New Boston Post.
Radio and Cable TV: In addition to our weekly radio show, we guest hosted three radio shows, and appear as regular guests every other week on the Dianna Ploss Show which airs on WSMN-AM 1590 Nashua, NH. We were interviewed on several cable TV and on-line shows.
Special Projects: The documentary Unsustainable is under production and we will have several our instructors participating in the program including Debbie Bacigalupi, Professor Willie Soon, Lord Christopher Monckton, Tom DeWeese, Dave Kopacz and me. Since we will be at our annual family camp, the documentary’s director, James Jaeger will film the interviews at camp.
And, we are busy promoting, planning and scheduling activities and classes for what we hope will be our best family camp in our history.
How can you help? Here are a few suggestions:
1, Pray that God will continue to bless our efforts.
2, Become a donor. Donations can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website https://www.campconstitution.net
3, Attend our annual family camp or, if you can’t attend, help sponsor a worthy young person or family.
4, Sponsor a camp speaker and/or host a “What is Camp Constitution Presentation.”
5, Subscribe, view and share our videos on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN7ME18Q1xiqcrPEn5h5FbA
Thanks to all of you who make our camp program possible.
Hal Shurtleff, Director
Camp Constitution
The Weekly Sam: The History of the Alphabet
Sam Blumenfeld was involved in the creation of the South Boston Heights Academy in the mid 1970s. Here is a link to a class he taught on the history of the alphabet at the academy:
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https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/