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University Summer Kansan
Eden—Adam and Eve Never Had It So Good
Bv SCOTT SPREIER
The Garden of Eden is under new management and open for business. The style have changed, however, and fit leaves better than the old styles—the Garden of Eden is now a nudist camp.
A Friend and I decided to do a story on the camp, which is north of Tonganoxie, and we were going to go skiing.
The gravel road leading to the Garden is one lane and rough. The only visible sign of the camp is a mailbox with the name and a painted red apple.
The closer we got, the more doubts we had. If there had been room to turn around we would have. There wasn't, so we stopped at the trailer marked INFORMATION.
A young woman came out and we introduced ourselves. She said we could talk to her husband who was working in the camp. We followed her down the winding, narrow path and told her to tell you," she said, "if you come down here you must be willing to take off your clothes."
We nodded agreement—I crossed my inventory's first—and continued Suddenly the door opened.
a snake... undoubtedly Satan in a well-known disguise. He let him pass, and then walked
The camp is in a small clearance. There is a pond, deck, snack bar, volleyball court and a flagpole topped with the Stars and Stripes—a bit of perfection the original garden unraveled. There were several trailers along the street, and a few people were sunning and fishing.
Vern Coleman, owner of the camp, stopped mowing and came over to talk. The Colemans have been nudists for three years, and belonged to several other camps before starting their own. "It's a way of life," he says.
According to Coleman, the earliest camps in the area were started more than 15 years ago. Most have died because of poor management or lack of funds.
Youngsters Play in Garden of Eden's Private Pond
- parents say the children are healthier as nudists
The Garden of Eden, started last year with a membership of 15, hopes to overcome these
profit organization,
Although yearly
membership is $62
per couple, Coleman
admits money is a
big problem.
An electrician at KU, Coleman bought the house a year more than a year ago. It is mostly woodland, with seven streams and six drinking water
He had to apply to the county for a permit to build the camp and has to comply with rigid health standards. He's made all the im- premises himself, during evenings and weekends.
If everything goes will, Coleman has grand plans for the future. They include clearing more ground and enlarging the lake, building an air-conditioned clubhouse (complete with restaurant, bar and dance floor), cabins and a runway - for living fudiens.
He hopes to make it as much like the original garden as possible by planting vigorous flowers in every corner.
The Garden is affiliated with the American Sunbathing Association, and one of Coleman's main ambitions is to some day host an A.S.A. convention.
This year the Colemans hope to expand the camp. They have had many applications from single men, but need more from single men. Usually only couples are allowed to join.
The Colemans personally screen all applicants and applications are kept confidential. Many people, such as government officials, are assumed names for fear of losing their jobs.
Visitors come from as far as Lincoln, Nebraska. Coleman says they are "normal everyday people," including doctors, aysers, a priest and a Baptist minister.
"You take off your clothes," says Coleman, and no one can tell any difference.
It's "like it one big, happy family," he says,
says that middlers are a friendier, happier
family.
Take for example the middle-aged man who had just walked over for an ice cream cone. He said he had been a audist since 1982. He took care of everything, several operations and could hardly sleep, told him to get lots of sun—he was at it ever since and appeared in fine health.
Coleman says that since they've become radicals their four children haven't even had a
Although open all year, the busy season is summer, with about 50 people coming on a good weekend. Activities include potluck dinner, playball volleyball, swimming and, of course, sunbathing. There are similar activities throughout that travelling dumbbells can use for a small fee.
During our conversation, Coleman's wife disappeared. She returned-sworn clothes—and sat down opposite me. Suddenly my entire WASP background flashed before me!
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I didn't know whether to remain or run, and seriously considered saluting the flag.
I remained. I gripped my pencil firmly,
and when I said, "I'm going to lie," she had any trouble with Peeping Tom.
image and, according to Coleman, are discriminated against. Newspapers won't carry his advertisements. Pornographic magazines carry nudist titles to stay legal.
She said no, but that there was an occasional low-flying airplane.
Another problem is getting people to try nudism. Coleman says that there is no problem with men, but that women are not protected and their husbands to stay and often end up crying.
He admits he gets tousled at work, but says usually stops when he invites them to camp for a day.
Camps also have to contend with the curious and cranks who try to join. Coleman says that many people expect promiscuity to be abused, but added that no more happens in a nazi camp than anywhere else. The main reason that you behave like ladies and gentlemen.
There are other problems. Although completely legal, nudist camms have a bad
Mrs. Coleman has had calls ranging from an indignant minister to a "little old lady" who demanded her 31 year-old son be prohibited from joining.
There are also little things—anakes, poison ivy, and sunburn—unually a problem for birds.
It was time to leave, but our hosts invited us to join them for a swim. I paused, remembered my goal—in-depth reporting—and accepted.
While everyone else went to the lake, we shipped out of our clothes. We started towards the dock, stopping to play a game of tethering and trying to explain our courage. Then-on to the lake.
The water was icy, but everyone was friendly and the sun felt good. After an enjoyable swim, we dressed and left the Garden.
When I got home, my wife was waiting at the door. She wrote late! she said, "Where have you been?"
"Skimydipping with some friends in the Garden of Eden." I said.
There was no answer, but from the way the door slammed, I knew she didn't believe me.
Nudists Enjoy Sun and Cool Breezes . . . usually only couples are allowed to join
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World Gone to Pot
By LORRAINE GAUTHIER
News Nothing but Junk KANSAN
BY LORRAINE GAUTHER
You'd swear the entire population had gone to pot! -or bashish or BLSH or heroin or heroin.
If the medium is the message then we can expect to see many more 'freaks freaks' "not popping up" and addicts popping up all over.
Expose yourself to the media for one day. On the half-hour news broadcasts include at least two interviews with since-deceased junkies or jungle "All American" drug problem "CBS news favor interviews with since-deceased junkies or jungle "All American" drug problem "CBS news favor interviews with since-deceased junkies or jungle "All American" drug problem in of-find reporting. They like to bring the drug problem closer to home to keep Mom and awake nights. Their reports are tested in a textual testimonial by a former coed testimonial by a former coed path (with poppies growing all in time) of life of crime and shooting-up.
Sen. Hughes, D-Lowa, recently made beadiness because his life was "shooting gallery." This is notwas. Did he have a career as a jeweler and a diamond jeweler?
The role of the news media is valid to an extent. It should sound familiar to students with problem and force public offence and school administrators to face a situation they prefer to pretend to know better, much of this recent press is news?
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In the same light, classification of some materials warrants my approval A recent column, for example, called the penalty which called for the death penalty for drug pushers. He proposed that each day at high noon in major American cities on Friday, at a public gallows. Really?
The President too has a plan for this now completely out-of-hand campaign. He will point program of educational rehabilitation, prosecution and poppy killing. Mr. Nixon hopes to give his senator the chance now the Democrats should do him
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