Page 12 - Bulletin #67 - November 2020

An 80 Whitsun Birthday for Camphill
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By Vivian Griffiths

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Eighty years ago this Whitsun Camphill celebrates the move from Kirkton house to
Camphill Estate where Dr Konig’s colleagues and the first group of Children moved in
1940. This June there were many birthday celebrations planned, giving us part of the
theme for this edition of Pages. Sadly these are been cancelled.

This includes the festival at New Lanark, the site of Robert Owen's remarkable working,
education, social and cultural Mill Complex, that was such an example of good practice at
the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

Owen became one of the 'Pillars' of Camphill's endeavour along with Amos Comenius and
Count Zinzendorf from the central European religious community builders of the 16th
and 17th century, figures that inspired Dr Karl Konig when the idea for a community
grew from idea into reality that would work where the image of the human being was
threatened.