User:Rtgarden
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Rtgarden started on the internet in 1989 on the Well project as Lucy4. Since witnessing the rise of the internet, the Renaissance Fair festivals, Burningman, Modern Tribal, Traditional Music,the Fools Guild, New Vaudeville, Variety Arts, Burlesque, Flamenco and Live Journal and has conducted a herstory of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire since 1999 now at rtgarden.com.
Wickipedia is the most exciting activity online since The Well in Sausalito.
[edit] Area History
Rtgarden lives in Northern California in Humboldt County near the Avenue of the Giants. Nearby Garberville, Redwayand the Eel River(south fork) in the original back to the land community of Southern Humboldt most renowed the world over for the high quality marijuana grown despite the pressures of an intense repressive drug war waged on the civilian population. At times this civil action has and does include Helicopter surveilance, road blocks, community infiltration, DARE school programs, Land Seizure, raids on recognized legal medical marijuana patients, and Cointel Pro style terror tactics (see Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney,Ed Rosenthal, Chris Giaque )used on the non-violent local civilian population. The local Coastal Redwoods type environment is decimated by the previous large scale clearcutting of timber and the running of cattle on fragile land which is a desert half of the year. The community came under fire in the 1980s under President Reagan for being perceived as funding the environmental movement, which includes local Earth First! civil disobedience actions and tree sits, as well as more conventional watershed organizations, Land Trusts and State Park conservancy groups such as Save the Redwoods and Friends of the Eel River pursuing the preservation and integrity of the diverse bioregion. The local area includes the Headwaters Forest, The Matteel watershed corridor, Bear Harbour and the Lost Coast, and the six or more large sub-divided ranches with communities hours from town.
Mateel Community Center along with Peoples Productions host the annual Reggae on the River open air music festival on the Eel river at Frenches Camp the first week of August every year. In recent years the festival has featured long time local favourite Spearhead, David Lindley, Ben Harper, Jimmy Cliff, Judy Mowatt, Ziggy Marley and Julian Marley. The Black Oak Ranch also called the Hog Farm in nearby Northern Mendocino hosts Earthdance, and the kids performing summer camp Camp Winnarainbow led by Wavy Gravy and other Pranksters. The Trinity Tribal Stomp is to the east, while College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University student population provide resources and talent for many activities in the northern part of the county including Eureka and Arcata.
