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In this oral history, multimedia innovator and social entrepreneur Fabrice Florin discusses Druid Heights where he lived for two years in the late 1970s. Fabrice recounts how he moved to California from Switzerland in 1975, drawn by the hippie counterculture, but found that he had come too late. Working as a radio producer, Fabrice first visited the bohemian community on Mt. Tam at the suggestion of a friend and soon after moved into a small house on the property. Fabrice describes how at that time the community was known not as Druid Heights but rather as Paradise, and he evokes the beauty both of its natural setting and the utterly singular structures built by Roger Somers. Though he arrived after Alan Watts had passed away, there were a number of interesting characters still living there, such as Waldron Vorhees, whom he colorfully describes. Concluding this oral history, Fabrice reflects on the unforgettable experience of living at Druid Heights and expresses his hope that the buildings will be preserved and the community that once flourished there be commemorated.
Identifier
B82E134F-DBF9-419C-A489-621576298290 2018.079.001
Subject
Aliens (Space) Bohemians Brand, Stewart Drugs Druid Heights Florin, Fabrice Florin, Phyllis Hippies Hookers Ball LSD (Drug) Music Nature New Dimensions Foundation Oral history - Visual, performing, literary arts Paradise Radio broadcasting Somers, Roger St. James, Margo Television production Video West Vorhees, Waldron Watts, Alan
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