This was totally fun. Unexpected treat: Aimee Kibbe, an artist/free spirit from Nevada City, presented me with this handmade Shelter doll. The embroidery on the left trouser leg is the Jaime de Angulo sketch from the first page of our 1973 book Shelter.

Photos by Lisa Foti-StraussSee: https://gravelandgold.com/blog/ for more photos
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
That's a great turnout and a nice recognition present. – Margy