Morningstar Newsletter Home Page
and History
A History of Two Open-Door California Communes
Morning Star Ranch and Wheeler's (Ahimsa) Ranch
Welcome, ranchers, grads, alums and fellow travelers!
Put up your feet and hang awhile!
Morningstar Commune, (Morning Star Ranch, The Digger Farm),
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 Gottlieb After a brief stint reviewing concerts for
the "San Francisco Chronicle," moved to Morning Star Ranch , his
30-acre ranch in Sonoma County, in 1966. Many people will remember
fondly "The Digger Farm," as it came to be called, 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 and the impact Lou had as the "resident piano
player," as he referred to himself. Gottlieb attempted to leave the land
he owned to God. A series of court appeals culminated in the 9th district
court ruling that he could not. The ruling centered around the fact that
if God was named owner on a quit claim deed, there would be no recourse
for the collection of property taxes. The finding, therefore, was that
God has no property rights in the state of California.
This Morningstar Commune frightened Ronald Reagan then
Governor of California and he vowed to remove it from the face of the earth.
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) and
Part III (New Mexico).
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Thanks also to Eric Noble's San Francisco Diggers website
who created space for several newsletters and the "Home Free Home" book
(See below). I've linked this page to his sites when you click on the appropriate
title and many thanks for the technical help from David Hatch.
We are always searching for photos of both ranches, so
please let me know if you have any in your memorabilia!
Thanks to Elph and those responsible for the Intentional
Community website for hosting this website for the past five years. The
Most Newsletter has now moved to laurelrose.com (which is hosted by Tomas
who is a Morningstar alumni).
Ramon
Sender is the originator of the MOrningSTar POSTS (Morningstar
Newsletter) and is responsible for maintaining a dialog with everyone until
the onset of the web when his job became a lot easier and a lot more complicated
in a few short years.
MOSTposts functions basically
as a list for folks who lived on two communal ranches, Morningstar and
Wheeler's, and for this reason we keep it as a moderated list.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mostposts/
Feedback, comments, photos and queries can also be sent
to: 2006morningstar at laurelrose dot com and the information will be sent
to Yahoo Groups MOST POSTS Newsletter:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mostposts/
Click here to see
a few of the alumni then come back here.
This is a list of all published issues of the MOST Newsletter
to date -- last updated January 2004
MOST Newsletter Winter 2004-5
Volume XI
MOST Winter 2003-4 Volume
X
MOST Spring 2003 Volume IX
MOST Autumn 2000 Volume VII
#3 & MOST Winter Volume VIII #1
MOST Summer 2000 Volume VII
#2
MOST Spring 2000 Volume VII
#1
MOSTAutumn 1999 Volume VI #3
MOST Summer 1999, Vol VI #2
MOST Spring 1999, Vol VI #1
MOST Autumn 1998, Vol V #1
MOST IV #2, 1996 Lou Gottlieb
memorial party
MOST
IV #1 Lou Gottlieb's funeral, July1996
MOST MOST I #4, October 1992uploaded
July 27 1999
MOST MOST I #3, September
1992 uploaded July 24 1999
MOST
MOST I #2, June 1992
MOST
MOST I #1, May 1992
The Newsletter moved to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mostposts/
Below is the History of the Two Open-Door California
Communes and related links to those folks now.
"Home
Free Home," a 24-chapter Morning Star & Wheeler Ranch
history
Morningstar
Scrapebook
Manifesto
II RamonThe
second Manifesto was put together at the Ahimsa Ranch commune in 1971.
It was a collaborative effort, and evokes the
warmth and love of the community very well. Enjoy!
Good
Olde Daze photos from Wheeler Ranch in the late Sixties/early Seventies
Hundreds of black-and-white shots conveniently arranged by topic byChar~*
thanks so much for your Web expertise/ongoing assist!
Ramon Sender Website
"Morningstar
Chronicles" by Pam Hanna Read
Pam Read's Experiences
at Morningstar California
Pam Read's Experiences
at Morningstar New Mexico
The Next Morning Star
New Mexico Installment
The Digger Forum
is a good place for all of us to meet and say hello.
Morningstar
Commune Wikipedia
If you have written your Morningstar
/Wheelers Ranch biography to a blog or website
let us know and we will post
a link to it here.
Morningstar imformation can
be gleaned at these web sites and archives:
mostposts at yahoogroups dot com
Wilder
Bentley Homepage
Jodi Mitchell
SUPERSOCKMONKEY.COMby
Mitch Mitchell
Intentional Communities Web
Site
The Diggers Archives
Lou Gottlieb and The
Limeliters
Roots
of Communal Revival 1962-1966 by Timothy
Miller
Religious
Movements in the United States:by Timothy Miller
Lou
Gottlieb by Pam Hanna and David Hatch
Other
Articles by Pam Hanna
Pam
Hanna's Public Reviews
StoryTeller.netby
Sara Ransom
The Morningstar
Homepage by Friartuck RIP 9/21/99 (This
link above does go anywhere at this time.)
Joe Dolce
& Difficult
Women
Healing
Words by Oceana Taicher (This
link above does go anywhere at this time.)
Margo
by
Margo
Paster
Eddie (Snakepit) by Eddie and Janice Edwards
Paster
Eddie (Snakepit) by Eddie and Janice Edwards
The
Honolulu Jazz Scene by Clay Freeman
I do all the translating into
French for my friend Christian Werba's website: Clay Freeman
Family
by Tom Lance
Oannes.com
by Bruce Magnotti
Olcities by Bruce Magnotti
David
Hatch @ Wheelers VM*
Moses
Moon by David Hatch
Friar
Tuck by David Hatch
The Tie Dye Guysby
Bishop
& Peggy Saltzman
O.B.
Ray, the Sage of Wheeler's by Bishop Saltzman
Living on the
Earth by Alicia Bay Laurel
What did the hippies
believe in?
What is the freedom
that hippies tried to achieve?
What was it about
society at that time that made
hippies and their
ideals a reality?
What kind of reality
was it? by Alicia Bay Laurel
Coyote
in Print by Peter Coyote
Free-Fall
Chronicles by Peter Coyote
Peter CoyoteHome
page
Erawan.Net by
Robert
Jade & Rune's Nipa
Hut! by Buffalo Bill and Jude
Phil
Morningstar
Thomas
Roark
Char~*
Wheelers
Ranch Scrapbook by Char~*
Char~* is the Creator
of these sites and the three of us have saved her website for the future.
There are slight differences
in the links at these sites. Our thanks to Char~*
http://badabamama.com/wheelersranch.html
http://www.hippiemuseum.org/wheelersranch.html
http://laurelrose.com/IMAGINATION/wheelersranch.html
Living on the
Earth by Alicia Bay Laurel
What did the hippies
believe in?
What is the freedom
that hippies tried to achieve?
What was it about
society at that time that made
hippies and their
ideals a reality?
What kind of reality
was it? by Alicia Bay Laurel
The Hippie Museum
The
Hippie
Museum
Timeline
The Personal
The Political
The Earth
Express
Thyself
Happeningings
Collections
The Hippie Museum
Ed Walkinstik
Ed
Walkinstik, Hope and The Amazing Solar Chariot
Tomas
by Tomas
The Sonoma
County Museum
A Few
of the Flower Children of the Sixties
Old Newspaper
Articles & Photos Scrapebook
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.
Contact Us
Come visit us at Yahoo Groups MOST
POSTS Newsletter for some day to day gossip and some extremely wild
tales:
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Feedback, comments, photos and queries can also be sent
to: 2006morningstar@laurelrose.com
Place "2006 Morningstar" in the subject line or it will
be included as junk mail and may not be seen; the information will be sent
to Yahoo Groups MOST POSTS Newsletter:
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If you send us a photo to us it will be placed into the
Old
Newspaper Articles & Photos Scrapebook
Those Morningstar Alumni who wish to get in contact with
us at MostPosts at Yahoo write us via this Email: 2006morningstar@laurelrose.com
Place "2006 Morningstar" in the subject line or it will
be included as junk mail and may not be seen.
Or
join the group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mostposts/
And tell us when and where you lived - Morningstar, Wheelers
or Morningstar in New Mexico.
If any of you that have access
to better quality newspaper articals or photos about you or
Morningstar Ranch please copy and
send us the file if you can.
These photos are the efforts of
those beings listed on the Title
Page.
The newer photos are taken by Ramon,
Pam, Jodi and the good folks of Morningstar and Wheelers.
Feedback, photos and queries can be sent to: 2006morningstar
at laurelrose dot com
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