Our web site will still help you in three ways. You will be able to purchase resources to help you at work and at home, you will be able to access our three free journals, and you will be able to contact our staff for answers to questions you might have.
Idyll Arbor's primary mission is to improve the quality of health care provided to clients by providing quality information and resources to practitioners. One way in which we provide this information is through our over 200 products. We carry books, games, assessments and video/audio supplies. Access these products through our Topics or Resources pages. You may also access resources directed toward specific Professions.
Our free, on-line journals, collectively called Idyll Arbor’s Journals of Practice (IAJP), cover three different occupational and topic groups: Recreational Therapy, Activity Professionals and Chemical Dependency. Each journal accepts three types of contributions: Articles, Notes on Practice and comments. The material presented in IAJP will be rotated off the web page and saved to be published periodically in a paper format. These discipline specific volumes will be available for purchase through Idyll Arbor, Inc.
A Guide to Published Articles in Recreational and Adjunctive Therapies is also available. The Guide is designed to give the reader easy access to information published in 16 Therapeutic Recreation and Adjunctive Therapy journals from 1967 to 2004. Searches can be made by author, subject, journal and date.
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Idyll Arbor, Inc. is unique because our practitioners talk with other practitioners across the country on a regular basis. We hear about trends in Joint Commission, CARF, NCQA and HCFA surveys as they are happening. Professionals know that they can contact our professional staff and ask about programs, products and techniques which have worked for other therapists across the United States and Canada. We hope this web site will help your practice. Please feel free to contact us with suggestions for making our site more useful for you.
With pictures and stories the Bords present cases of encounters with Bigfoot. The Bigfoot story has moved from certainty of the creatures’ existence to claims of hoaxes, trickery, and outright lies and back again. Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin claim to have taken movies of Bigfoot; Ray Wallace’s family shows wooden feet that they claim were used to start the whole Bigfoot story in 1958. Who do we believe?
The Bords’ answer is “nobody and everybody.” The cases are presented without prejudice so you can make up your own mind. Sometimes it’s easy, as with the Ray Wallace claims — there are plenty of sightings before Ray Wallace was alive to make it clear he didn’t “start the whole thing.” Other cases are a mystery. And that’s all part of the fun.
Janet & Colin Bord During the 1980s the Bords wrote books on a wide range of Fortean topics, including Alien Animals, Bigfoot Casebook, Modern Mysteries of Britain, Modern Mysteries of the World (published in the USA as Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century), Life Beyond Planet Earth?, and The World of the Unexplained (showcasing the most interesting photographs in the Fortean Picture Library). In more recent years Janet Bord has written several books including Footprints in Stone: Imprints of Giants, Heroes, Holy People, Devils, Monsters and Supernatural Being, Fairies: Real Encounters with Little People; and The Traveler’s Guide to Fairy Sites, and is currently writing books on the holy wells of Britain and Ireland.
See the Foreword to the book by Loren Coleman here.
