Bohemian Grove

thumb|right|The Owl Shrine at the Bohemian Grove The Bohemian Grove is a campground in California that hosts a two-week long gathering in July and is owned by the Bohemian Club, a gentleman's club. Quotes The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. Richard Nixon, in Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in Harper's Magazine (February 2000) My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity: the Elvis impersonators, the pseudo-pagan spooky rituals, the heavy drinking. These people might have reached the apex of their professions but emotionally they seemed trapped in their college years. I wondered whether the Bohemians shrouded themselves in secrecy for reasons no more sinister than that they thought it was cool. Jon Ronson, in Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001) p. 321 External links Category:Geography of California