As the Twig is Bent

This book tell the rich story of The Children's Country School. As a boarding school, TCCS triumphed progressive ideals amidst a Great Depression and Second World War. From 1935-1947, this country school located in the "Valley of the Hearts-Delight" (modern-day Silicon Valley) produced a world-renown Pied Piper's Call summer camp and audacious Village of Friendly Relations Victorian-inspired houses built by children and for children. You will see this electric school through the eyes of its' philosophical leader, Mary Orem, by way of personal letters and theoretical writings. You will vicariously walk in the shoes of these boarding school students as they 'learn by doing' through personal interviews and hundreds of black and white photographs. An engaging story set in uncertain times of struggle, survival, and triumph. TCCS would be associated with such famous names as Kelloggs, Heinz, Olivia de Havilland, Hedy Lamar, Paul Robeson, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, and Yehudi Menuhin. The National events of Pearl Harbor and the death of a FDR, as well as on campus events of a devastating fire and loss of a TCCS founder would profoundly effect the direction and outcome of the TCCS. From 1935-1947, The Children's Country School would have more ups and downs than the stock market crash that preceded it or the infamous racehorse Seabiscuit during it. And it all started from a simple idea: As the twig is bent, the tree will grow.