Two historic swastikas on a building caused a popular Bay Area summer camp to close. Here's what happened
Hidden Villa, a popular South Bay summer camp that would normally host 900 children,...
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Hidden Villa, a Los Altos nonprofit farm and wilderness preserve, abruptly canceled all sessions of its summer camp after the camp director and three other leaders resigned on June 5 after the organization was slow to remove two historic swastika tiles from a main building.
Hidden Villa canceled all of its summer camp sessions due to the “abrupt departure” of camp staff members upset over the nonprofit's handling of complaints about decorative tiles with Buddhist swastikas on the historic Duveneck House.
A California summer camp tucked away in a woodsy pocket of the Silicon Valley abruptly canceled all summer sessions after several staff members quit over a controversy.
The abrupt departure of some camp staff was partially caused by discussions around a Buddhist swastika on the historic Duveneck house, which was built in 1929.