Krisha Fairchild, on living at The Three Arts, 1971

Krisha Fairchild sent in these eloquent, poetic words on what the Three Arts Club meant to her:

for me, moving from a state university campus
to the Three Arts Club, around 1971,
it was the safe haven i needed
in a city unlike any i knew...

it was a place where there were
just enough rules to protect me from myself...

a place where i could hang with other arty girls
with good upbringings, all of us ready to cut loose,
but still needing some gentle guidance...

it was a sorority without the snobs.
a dorm without the drunks.
a place to NOT get pregnant...
but rather to get exposed to the world of the arts
as others lived and strived it.

i cannot imagine how the city might have
bruised and damaged my sensibilities,
without the Three Arts Club as a buffer zone.

i have always remembered it so fondly.
and i will continue to embrace it as it was,
and hope it will be recreated someday.

aloha and light...