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Tannya: '60s, A TIME OF
UPHEAVAL BUT A GROUP OF YOUNG
PEOPLE HEADED TO HAWAI'I.
AND HAWAI'I THEATER IS GOING TO
SCREEN THIS AMAZING STORY.
HERE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT IT ON
"LIVING 808," WE WELCOME
PRODUCER JOHN WEHRHEIM AND
FORMER TAYLOR CAMP RESIDENT DIE --
DIANE PATALANO.
ACTUALLY IT'S DIANE DANIELS.
Tannya: THERE IS DIANE
PATALANO.
THIS IS DIANE.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
THIS IS A GROUP OF
PHOTOGRAPHS I MADE AT TAYLOR
CAMP IN THE '70s.
INTRODUCTION.
HISTORIC SETTING.
AND THE REST OF THE BOOK IS
INTERVIEWS AND QUOTES CAN THE
TAYLOR CAMPERS.
LIKE THEM.
SOME WHO DIDN'T LIKE THEM.
I LIKE TO SAY THIS IS NOT HIPPY
PROPAGANDA.
THE FULL TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT
THE TRUTH.
ALSO INTERVIEWED EDWARDO, THE
MAYOR OF KAUAI WHO WORKED FOR
ABOUT TEN YEARS -- OR EIGHT
YEARS TO GET RID OF THE TAYLOR
CAMPER AND RID KAUAI OF HIPPIES..
WE ALSO INTERVIEWED HIS BROTHER.
Tannya: THAT'S INCREDIBLE.
TELL ME ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE
HOLDING?
A SIGN THAT A YOUNG GIRL WHO WAS
A CAMPER.
ONE DAY SHE PRESENTED IT TO ME.
MY HOUSE WAS UP AT THE BEACH.
AND A HALF YEARS I WAS THERE.
IT'S HIS NOW.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR.
THANK YOU.
A HISTORIC DOCUMENT.
I PHOTOGRAPHED DIANE'S HOUSE.
THIS IS IN THE PHOTOGRAPH.
Tannya: NO KID?
FRONT AND CENTER.
Tannya: JUST LIKE THAT.
PEOPLE WOULD COME UP AND MAKE
THEIR WAY AROUND THE BEACH FROM
THE END OF THE ROAD.
THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE
GOING TO STUMBLE AROUND.
THEY'D SEE THESE TREE HOUSES AND
MINE WAS THE FIRST ONE.
THEY'D STAND BY THE SIGN AND
LOOKING UP AND THEIR MOUTH WOULD
BE -- AND I'D SAY, HI.
AND THEY GO, WHAT IS THIS?
Tannya: WHAT WAS IT?
THIS IS TAYLOR CAMP.
I'D LIKE PEOPLE TO KNOW IT
WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE TO
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN A
TREEHOUSE ON A BEACH IN KAUAI.
YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND
YOU'D PUT A SARONGO OR NOT.
AND GO DOWN TO THE STREAM.
WE HAD A HOLLOWED AREA FOR THE
BATH.
UP, DIP IN AGAIN.
WRAP YOUR TOWEL.
THE WATER.
AND BRINGING IT DOWN, PUTTING IT
ON THE ROCK AND MIXING A LITTLE
COOL WATER AND POUR IT OVER TO
ME TO BE WARM.
HAWAI'I WICKET WINTER WEATHER WE HAVE.
PEOPLE WOULD TAKE AWAY FROM
GOING TO THE SCREEN THIS WEEKEND
ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE?
THERE WAS NO OTHER COMMUNITY
LIKE THIS.
AND THERE NEVER WILL BE A
COMMUNITY LIKE THIS.
THIS IS SOMETHING COMPLETELY
UNIQUE.
THE ULTIMATE HIPPY FANTASIES.
THERE WERE A LOT OF INTENTION
THE COMMUNITIES.
IT HAD NO GURU OR RULES.
IT WAS STARTED BY ELIZABETH
TAYLOR'S BROTHER.
HE TURNED EVERYONE LOOSE.
NO RULES, NO REGULATIONS.
SOMEHOW, IT DEVELOPED ORDER
WITHOUT RULES.
IT WAS QUITE A WELL ORGANIZED
PLACE WITHOUT ANY OFFICIAL --
Tannya: I --
ORGANIZATION.
IT WAS AS THOUGH WE WERE
LIVING TOTAL IN ONE STRUCTURE.
BUT WE HAD OUR OWN ROOMS.
IT WAS LIKE THAT.
IT WAS A FREEDOM OF GOING UP AND
DOWN PEOPLE'S STAIRS AND MORGUE
MORGUE -- KNOWING THAT YOU COULD
WALK OVER TO SOMEONE'S OVER.
AND IN THE EVENING, LAMPS WOULD
BE LIT UP AND DIFFERENT SMELLS.
Tannya: AND A DIFFERENT
TIME.
WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO CHECK
THAT OUT.
WE HAVE INFORMATION.
EDGE OF PARADISE AT HOUR THEATER
SUNDAY AT 7:00.
TICKETS AT HAWAI'I THEATER.COM.
THANK YOU.
COMING UP, PURE WATER AT HOME.