We’re used to people baring their souls at StoryCorps, but this is a story about baring quite a bit more.
Ten years ago, on Tracia Kraemer’s 40th birthday, she wanted to do something she’d never done before. So she gathered her courage and paid a visit to the last surviving nudist park in the state of Louisiana, Indian Hills.
She figured she’d at least wind up with a good story, but as she remembers in this conversation with her husband Patrick, she came away with a whole lot more.
Tracia and Patrick married in 2013. Together they managed Indian Hills for several years.
Last fall, they took off in an RV for a year-long adventure visiting nudist establishments across the country.
Top photo: Patrick and Tracia Kraemer pose nude behind a tractor at the Indian Hills Nudist Park in 2015. Courtesy David Grunman / The Times-Picayune.
Bottom photo: Patrick and Tracia Kraemer at their StoryCorps interview in New Orleans, Louisiana in February of 2018.
Originally aired May 4, 2018, on NPR’s Morning Edition.