Lecture to explore primitive living

The San Diego Archaeological Center presents historian and researcher Diana Lindsay for the Center’s Second Saturday Visiting Scholar Series on November 10 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Lindsay is an editor and author who wrote the foreword for “Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles: An Experiment in Primitive Living.” She will present a PowerPoint program about South’s stay on Ghost Mountain.

Original film clips of the South family at their Anza Borrego home were later used to create a documentary entitled “Ghost Mountain: An Experiment in Primitive Living.” The entire 15-minute documentary will be shown during the lecture.

For 17 years, from 1930 to 1947, poet, artist and author Marshal South and his family lived on Ghost Mountain, a remote, waterless, windswept mountaintop in Blair Valley on the western edge of the Colorado Desert, now part of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Over a period of nine of those years, South chronicled his family’s controversial natural lifestyle through monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. His articles were the reality entertainment of the day – a sort of early version of “Survivor” – with thousands of readers awaiting the next installment.

Autographed copies of the South book will be available for purchase following the lecture. Twenty percent of the proceeds will be donated to the San Diego Archaeological Center.

For cost and more information on this event e-mail [email protected] or call (760) 291-0370.