Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ferociously intelligent, as well as the most neoclassical of the lot. The couple practice and build mainly in South Florida, so it is fitting that they are attracted to Mediterranean forms. Theirs is a swaggering, hard-edged classicism on the cheap. Out of stucco they make neo-Roman villas: stark, complicated buildings that recall the Viennese Adolf Loos and do not suffer in the comparison...
Partly, of course, just for a pleasant tour; life had long since eased for Clauss and the rest, and a vacation trip to the U.S. was quite normal. But Stark, even with its maples and birches blazing red and yellow on this early fall Saturday, is no more than a spare, work-worn village, well to the north of the usual tourist route through the White Mountains. To come here takes $ some effort. All through the afternoon of speeches and band music, the Germans, who were honored guests, and the American men of the same age who had been...
...Camp Stark, the only prisoner-of-war stockade in New Hampshire, operated from the spring of 1944 to the spring of 1946. Some of the 250 prisoners were captured in North Africa early in the war and were members of a division formed of leftist political dissidents routed out of German prisons and sent to fill out Rommel's army. But those who returned to Stark, tracked down over the past four years by Allen Koop, a professor of American and European history at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., had been ordinary soldiers, 18 or 19 years...
...Brown Paper Co. Another bull of the woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large. "I never had a bit of a problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories of Camp Stark. But he had come carrying a sack full of old photos, looking for a friend. He found him too: Clauss, who had translated for the local priest when White had been an altar boy at St. Francis Church...
...stories, old faces. The reunion party motored a couple of miles away to the site of Camp Stark, now nothing but a clearing at the edge of the White Mountain National Forest, a couple of tumbled stone fireplaces and a new highway marker sketching its history. Historian Koop, who had organized the affair and is writing a book about Stark, spoke of "rugged hills and gentle people" and quoted the truthful remark of one old resident that "yup, things have been kinda slow since they closed the camp." Hartmut Lang, a young official from the German consulate in Boston, said...