One day I was at the Grove beach when a Bohemian discovered that a friend's sunscreen was supposed to impede aging. A waiter in a red jacket dropped an uneaten chunk of the bright red cod into a waste bin, and the Bohemians at my table talked about presidents. It would seem that this year's encampment was useful to him. ", It was in the phone circle that Henry Kissinger alienated some brother Bohemians on the middle weekend. "Oh, Rocard is having a ball." After that I began working a dead West Coast relative's promise to have me out to the Grove one summer into a shaggy-dog story about my invitation. LOL that is some good fucking eyes wow he was so skinny then. Kissinger was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938. Fifty people were arrested. "I need the B-2.". More than 1,500 people are on the waiting list, and one man waited 10 years before becoming a member. Like all such institutions the club has its rituals, its ceremonies, its hallowed rules. Walter Cronkite. The scene was permeated by a kind of kitsch Black Forest imagery, and the setting seemed very Wagnerian -- though the music was sometimes undercut by the soft drumming of tinkling urine off the edge of the porch, where the beer drinkers went one after the other. Now and then, though, a Bohemian sits down in the ferns and passes out. Let my friends remember me by it when i am gone, reads a plaque left by a Bohemian at the base of a 301-footer. Lowell Bergman, a producer with 60 Minutes who used to hunt rabbits in the nearby hills, remembered a fire road leading into the site near the Guerneville waste-treatment plant but said they'd spot me sneaking in. Only one telephone line goes into the grove, and telegram is the main form of communication in or out. He projects an automatic, almost druggy congeniality. Hookers came to a certain bar in Monte Rio at ten each night, he said. And former California governor Pat Brown has said publicly, many times, that the presence of women would keep Bohemians from enjoying their hallowed freedom to pee. Rumor had it that Reagan was going to give the next day's Lakeside Talk. Every year since 1879, the club holds its two-week Annual Summer Encampment, dubbed by President Herbert Hoover "the greatest men's party on earth." The gathering takes place on the exclusive. Mr. Ford and Mr. Kissinger this year were .guests of Mandalay, whose members include Stephen Bechtel Sr., Stephen Bechtel Jr., Leonard Case Firestone and Edgar F. Kaiser, among the industrialists; former C.I.A.