Update

Off the Beaten Path Bookstore rebranded as "Good Neighbor Bookstore". You can visit them at goodneighborbooks.com. They didn't go away. They just changed their name.

Wishes Granted!

In the Spring of 2019, Friends of Timbercrest partnered with Off the Beaten Path, an independent bookstore in Lakewood, New York, to restock the Timbercrest library according to a wish list provided by volunteers, camp staff, and council personnel.

The following titles were added to the library:

One copy each of:
  • Tom Brown’s Field Guide to the Forgotten Wilderness
  • Tom Brown’s Nature Survival for Children
  • ​Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Living with the Earth
  • Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants
  • Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking
  • Tom Brown’s Wilderness Survival
  • Keepers of the Animals
  • Keepers of the Night
  • Keepers of the Earth
  • Keepers of Life
  • Native Plant Stories
  • Field Guide to Devonian Fossils of New York
  • Honoring our Flag

Five copies each of:
  • Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds: Eastern Region
  • Birds of New York
  • Trees of New York
  • New York Rocks and Minerals
  • Foraging New York: Finding Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods
  • The Camp Dutch Oven Cookbook: Easy 5-Ingredient Recipes to Eat Well in the Great Outdoors
  • Cat’s Cradle Book Kit
  • My First Book of Knots
  • Pro-Knot Outdoor Knots

Twenty-two new titles. Fifty-eight volumes.

Added after the initial drive:
  • A Golden Guide to Non-Flowering Plants
  • National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders
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Lyric and Zoe unpack the first shipment.
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Thank you, Bob Lingle!
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Jen Schlick accepts the books from store owner Bob Lingle.
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​And thank you to these generous donors:
  • Nancy Anderson
  • Carol Barnes
  • Eva Dawn Bashaw
  • Barbara Bilicki
  • Carol Cady
  • Kennie Campbell
  • Kathryn Civilette
  • Shannon Clark
  • Chelsea Connor
  • Teresa Ferguson
  • Jerilyn Hickey
  • Corrie Johnson
  • Rebecca Kapple
  • Susan Lawton
  • Kathy Linn
  • Janice Mock
  • Kimberly Meabon
  • Hillary Newell
  • Allan Patchen
  • Jennifer Schlick
  • Bonnie Swoger
  • Erica Tener