Morning Star Ranch and Wheeler's (Ahimsa) Ranch Welcome, ranchers, grads, alums and fellow travelers!
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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). ( See
Rainbow Gathering )
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These flower children on these external links below are
not the painted portraits of "Flower Children" we see on television. These
human beings are the ones that fought hard for human dignity and were pushed
hard by the law.
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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
Senderis 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.
Use the search engine below to find the name of a friend
in six different web sites.
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.
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:
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!
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:
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:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mostposts/
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
