LOW CAMP
LOW CAMP is a queer history newsletter by Brooke Palmieri about the pursuit of sensual pleasure & ecstatic connection through folklore, archives, and kitsch.
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Elsa’s House (opens the original)
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We were bereft to have missed Elsa’s house on our trek to Druid Heights. Later that evening I double checked the map I had of the site and sent it to Kelly—it was right across from the Alan Watts Library, how could we have missed it? But as I said: the nature of the overgrowth, and the steep incline of the canyon, tricks the eye. Kelly texts back a picture of large pruning shears. We have to go back. We need to see Elsa’s house.If l
A Trip to Druid Heights (opens the original)
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Elsa Gidlow called her homestead in Marin County an Unintentional Community in a 1971 article for California Living:With a half-smile we have come to refer to ourselves as an ‘unintentional community’ because of the way of life that has been developing over the past sixteen years on the five acres of home we call Druid Heights. It is innocent of ideolog… <a href="https://lowcamp.substack.com/p/a
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