Kurt Barthel

Kurt Barthel could be called the father of the modern United States nudist movement. He began the American League for Physical Culture in 1929 with an ad in a newspaper seeking like-minded folks. Some say that organization was the beginning of the American nudist movement in general and the American Sunbathing Association (now called the American Association for Nude Recreation or (AANR).

Barthel founded America's first official nudist camp, Sky Farm in New Jersey, when nudists and nudism were not accepted at all by the American public, during the depression.

ee also

*The American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR)
*Clothes free organizations
*List of public outdoor clothes free places
*Naturism and Nudism
*Public nudity
*Skinny dipping
*The Naturist Society