Tales of the Pit 1997

Overview

Over Memorial Day weekend in 1996, filmmaker, activist and camper Anne Chamberlain turned her camera on the holiday happenings at The Pit, a lake-side, LGBTQ campground in southern Illinois. With The Pit’s gregarious owner proprietors, Hal and Billy, as her guide, Chamberlain captures a moment in its decades-long history creating community one barbecue at a time.