Morningstar commune

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Morningstar Commune, (Morning Star Ranch, The Digger Farm), ( See Louis Gottlieb ), (See Ramon Sender ) (See Timothy Miller ) was an active open land counterculture commune in (Occidental) Sebastopol near San Francisco. Morningstar was part of the historical changing society of young adults in the 1960's that traveled back and forth between the Haight-Ashbury and Sebastopol. Lou coined acronym LATWIDNO (Land Access To Which Is Denied No One) for everyone coming to the Ranch. The Ranch was in existence for a very short time but many of those traveling through the Haight traveled to the Ranch. We have documented its story at the links provided below.

Morningstar lives on in name at Twin Oaks Community, a contemporary commune of 100 members in Virginia. All Twin Oaks' buildings are named after communities that no longer exist.

This Morningstar Commune frightened Ronald Reagan then Governor of California and he vowed to remove it from the face of the earth.

More information can be found at these websites linked below.

Ramon Sender Baryon's meticulous undertaking to document the history of the Free Land movement through reminiscences and painstakingly edited oral history interviews.

Pam Hanna's vivid personal recounting of both the California and New Mexico branches of Morningstar. Part I (California). Part II (New Mexico).

The views of these human beings that walked this land called Morningstar is still very much part of the world of today's spirituality and is being studied to this day by religious historians.

See Counterculture: The 1960's

See Drop City (novel)