Morning Star: Open Land Manifesto

Open Land, a manifesto — Open Land: A Manifesto,” provides a history of the Morning Star commune, Autumn, 1970. View in our Digital Collection.

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.

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