The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-22
NUDISTS AT
Home FARM
Neither Players Nor Spec
tators Wear Clothes
When Plays Staged
By H. ALLEN SMITH
United, Press Staff Correspondent

HIGHLAND, N. Y. Aug. 22.--
-UP). - Amateur theatricals,
horseshoe pitching, swinging IN
hammocks and crawling on the
floor for the purpose Of straight
ening the spine-all done strictly
in complete undress--are among
the diversions at the big nudlst
camp outside Highland.
The camp was once dairy and
poultry farm. There are about
eight or ten buildings scattered
over the hillside, overlooking the
lake. The main BARN bears a
crudely printed sign, "Theatre
Guild" Here on Saturday nights
the nudists stage their little naked
dramas, usually written by some
one in the camp.
Last Saturdays production was
called Suppressed Desire
The nude actors are on a plat
form on one side Of the barn and
the naked audience sits in the hay
on the other.
What used to be the pigeon
roost is now the kindergarten for
half a dozen children. The duck
house has been converted into a
dormitory in which both men and
women sleep on cots, placed iii
two long rows. The basement OF
the duckhouse is called the incu-
bator room, and still has its in
cubators, though not functioning.
C. A. Thinner, siX-fOot Swede
in overalls. owns the farm. He is
known affectionately to the mud
lists as Jimmy" He has not yet
been talked into disrobing, and
goes about placidly with hammer
and saw. repairing what needs to
be repaired.
While "Timmy" doesn't go in
for much talking, the nudists
themselves will satisfy any con-
versational desires the visitor may
have. One young man approached
this correspondent, identified him.
self as Cornell medical student,
and said:
"Have you heard about our
Hemoglobin experiments? We are
making these experiments and
they are very interesting. We ex-
anime the Hemoglobin of a per-
son upon his arrival in camp.
Then, after two weeks in the sun.
we examine it again. This phase
of sun-effect has never been ex-
plored before"
The nudists, men and women
alike. love to tell you about their
first experience in stripping. All
of the stories are alike.
A young woman who used to be
book buyer in a New York de-
par tment store said that when she
took her clothes off for the first
time in front of a crowd, she
thought she would faint.
"But it just wasn't anything at
all. really" she explained. at
just seemed perfectly natural. 1t
felt just as natural then as you
and | feel, standing here right
now without clothes on"
Some of the women are avid
pitchers of the horseshoe. 1t may
be said that a ringer is a ringer,
clothes or no clothes. The horse
shoe courts are back of the dining
hall and one may watch the game
while one consumes ones vegeta-
bles and prunes.
A Miss Peters, who speaks with
German accent, is in charge Of
the orthopedic exercises, which
occur each morning in the Grub
bling down room" Five or six
men and women, all nude. get
down on their hands and knees
after putting on gloves and draw
ing half-socks over their knees.
They then begin crawling, in the
manner of the caterpillar. This
presents a very grotesque appear
ance, with Miss Peters going from
one to another, strengthening
spines and one thing and another.
A special performance of the
orthopedic exercises was staged
for this correspondents benefit.
Miss Peters tried to talk the visit
ing reporter into trying a few
creeps and crawis. This invita-