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HOME FREE HOME: A History of Two Open Land California Communes Morning Star Ranch and Wheeler's Ahimsa Ranch.
SF: Calm Unity Press, 2017. First edition in book form, with footnotes, (numerous) photographs and additional material (first unpublished edition 1977; e-edition on the San Francisco Diggers' website, 1995). 8vo. Wrps., 650pp.
Edited/narrated by Ramón Sender Barayón (who moved to Morning Star soon after co-producing the Trips Festival), with contributions from Tom Diaz, Vivian Gotters, Lou Gottlieb, Roland Jacopetti, Gwen Leeds, Coyote Otto, Alicia Bay Laurel, Helen Mikul, Rena Morningstar, Pam Read Hanna, Sara Ransom, Bill Wheeler, Peter Coyote, John Coate, Salli Rasberry and Delia Moon, and Tim Miller ("Morning Star and Wheeler's in American Communal History"), plus many others.
An extensive, well-illustrated history of two pioneering communes, both located in Sonoma County in Northern California, as told through reflections and commentary by various former residents. Back cover blurb by Stewart Brand.
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