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This story, The Hensons and Camp Sister Spirit , came through my news feed today.  I read the article and watched the entire video. It is important to me for several reasons; One, this is a story from my home state, and not far from me at all.  Two, I remember it, and Three, it is great to actually know about it after all these years. When I say I knew about it, I mean in a child way.  I was eleven and twelve when they first started building their camp and apparently were all in the news.  The only thing I ever heard, however, were other children laughing, "Lesbians in Ovett!  Hey Derek you live in Ovett, are you going to that camp?"  And parents and children alike simply saying the name 'Camp Sister Spirit'.  Nobody was really talking about it beyond that, at least not in front of their children.  I couldn't see the big deal about it except why would anyone purposefully move to po-dunk-ville, Mississippi?  I knew that lesbians were women who...

What is garbage to one is gold to another. The juicy new title by Blast Books, Another Science Fiction is proof. Incredibly, most of the images in this book came from discards from several libraries that were rescued by author and space history buff Megan Prelinger for her library in San Fransico, Prelinger Library. Read rest of article HERE >>

More than 200 people have attended the funeral and burial in north Kent of an unknown teenage girl who was decapitated about 700 years ago. Her remains were found by an archaeologist on unconsecrated ground next to Hoo St Werburgh Parish Church, near Rochester. Her head had been placed by her side, suggesting she may have committed suicide or been executed for a crime. Her body has now been reburied in the church's main graveyard. The girl was affectionately named Holly by church officials because her remains were found beside a holly tree used over many years to decorate the church at Christmas. 'Horrific end' Speaking at Saturday's public funeral service, the Reverend Andy Harding, vicar of Hoo, said: "Whoever this young girl is, whatever she had done, innocent or guilty, she and everyone deserves a dignified and respectable funeral. "If she had faced a trial then her death was the human penalty and she has paid in full. "If she took her own life then t...