The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest - Illustrated

by Margaret Vandercook

Overview

The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest is the second volume in this six-book series. The following is the actual setting of the story: Beechwood State Park was founded as Camp Beechwood by the Girl Scouts of America in 1929. This 150-acre piece of land in the northern Finger Lakes offered a beautiful forested setting and, at the time, a great beach on Lake Ontario. Unfortunately, due to declining attendance and increasing taxes, the camp was closed in the mid-1990s. In 1999, the state purchased the land with the intent of making it a state park. However, they too had budget issues and instead turned the land into a preserve (though it still bears the designation of "state park"). Currently, the park is maintained by the town of Sodus. Over the two decades since the state purchased the land, they added an additional 146 acres, making the park just under 300 acres in size. Otherwise, they have left the land and the buildings primarily to nature.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185601693
Publisher:	Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1921
Publication date:	04/03/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook (January 12, 1877 – February 7, 1958) was an American writer of young adult literature geared mainly toward young women. Vandercook did not become a professional writer until after her husband’s death in 1908, when she was 31 years old. Nonetheless, between 1911 and 1923, she published more than 35 novels in four series—The Camp Fire Girls, The Girl Scouts, The Ranch Girls and The Red Cross Girls.