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The Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100-hectare) campground in Monte Rio, California. Founded in 1878, it belongs to a private gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, the Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world. [1] [2]
The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note. Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area .
The Cremation of Care is an annual ritual production written, produced, and performed by and for members of the Bohemian Club. It is staged at the Bohemian Grove near Monte Rio, California, in front of a 40-foot tall image of an owl, at a small artificial lake amid a private old-growth grove of Redwood trees.
Every year, the club hosts a two-week-long (three weekends) camp at Bohemian Grove, which is notable for its illustrious guest list and its eclectic Cremation of Care ceremony which mockingly burns an effigy of "Care" [4] (the normal woes of life) with grand pageantry, pyrotechnics, and brilliant costumes, all done at the edge of a lake and at ...
The Bohemian Club (1872), which hosts the Bohemian Grove retreat; The Cercle de l'Union ("the French Club") (1905) [46] [47] The City Club of San Francisco (1930), until 1987 called the Pacific Stock Exchange Lunch Club [48] [49] The Concordia-Argonaut Club (1864) [50] [51] The Family (1901), founded by members of the Bohemian Club who left in ...
Despite heavy logging during the second half of the 19th century, the Sonoma Lumber Company preserved a 160-acre (65 ha) grove of old-growth redwood trees, which was sold to San Francisco's Bohemian Club in 1899. The club purchased dozens of other parcels in the area, and now owns 2,712 acres (1,098 ha), which are used for its summer retreats.
The Grove Play is an annual theatrical production written, produced and performed by and for Bohemian Club members, and staged outdoors in California at the Bohemian Grove each summer. In 1878, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco first took to the woods for a summer celebration that they called midsummer High Jinks. [ 1 ]
In 2011 Hooper was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit (Sierra Club v CALFIRE) [5] [6] that successfully challenged an aggressive logging plan for old-growth redwoods and Douglas fir at the Bohemian Grove, a 2,700-acre enclave on the Russian River owned by the elite San Francisco Bohemian Club. The lawsuit gained national attention.