{"id":3846,"date":"2009-10-09T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/2009\/10\/09\/3846\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T23:23:55","slug":"3846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2009\/10\/09\/3846\/","title":{"rendered":"Another great book from the OSU Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/osupress.oregonstate.edu\/book\/refusing-war-affirming-peace\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/osupress.oregonstate.edu\/sites\/all\/themes\/osupress\/resize.php?image=sites\/default\/files\/books\/Refusing-War.jpg&amp;w=170\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/osupress.oregonstate.edu\/book\/pedaling-revolution\">Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities<\/a>,&#8221; especially once I realized it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/31\/books\/review\/Byrne-t.html\">reviewed by David Byrne in the NY Times<\/a>&#8230; But when I read that Jeffrey Kovac, author of &#8220;Refusing War: Assuming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service at Cascade Locks&#8221; was coming to OSU, I knew I had to pass it on to all our blog readers!<\/p>\n<p>Kovak will be in Corvallis Oct. 18 for a 3 p.m. talk, presentation, and discussion at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. The event is free and open to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a blurb <a href=\"http:\/\/osupress.oregonstate.edu\/book\/refusing-war-affirming-peace\">from the OSU Press site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the untold stories of America\u2019s World War II experience belongs to the thousands who refused military service for reasons of conscience, instead serving their country through non-military alternate service. Refusing War, Affirming Peace offers an intimate view of a single Civilian Public Service Camp, Camp #21 at Cascade Locks, Oregon, one of the largest and longest-serving camps in the system\u2014and one of the most unusual.  Under the leadership of a remarkable director, Rev. Mark Y. Schrock, and some outstanding camp leaders, the men at Camp #21 created a vibrant community. Despite the requisite long days of physical labor, the men developed a strong educational program, published a newspaper and a literary magazine, produced plays and concerts, and participated in a special school and research project called the School of Pacifist Living. They also challenged the Selective Service System in two political protests\u2014one concerning the threatened removal of a Japanese American, George Yamada, and a second concerning a war- related work project.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/osupress.oregonstate.edu\/book\/refusing-war-affirming-peace\">Click here to find out more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved &#8220;Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities,&#8221; especially once I realized it was reviewed by David Byrne in the NY Times&#8230; But when I read that Jeffrey Kovac, author of &#8220;Refusing War: Assuming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service at Cascade Locks&#8221; was coming to OSU, I knew I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126509,233190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-main-page"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saNHDP-3846","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}