There they shed their clothes, built crude shelters of canvas, plastic and corrugated metal atop redwood stumps, in trees and in the fields; subsisted on brown rice, homegrown greens, marijuana and LSD and practiced ‘freedom’ with a vengeance.
Neighbors, downwind of the open sewage pits, called the health department, the building department and the sheriff.
— LeBaron, Gaye. “Morning Star Memories: Gottlieb's Hippie Heaven.” Santa Rosa Press Democrat, June 29, 1986.