‘The Farm Then and Now’ by Douglas Stevenson

Reader Contribution by New Society Publishers
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In late 1960s San Francisco, the colorful and celebrated counterculture icon Stephen Gaskin set in motion a chain of events that would lead to one of the most dynamic social experiments of modern time.

“Monday Night Class,” a weekly gathering which drew together an eclectic mix of truth-seekers and flower children, soon became a caravan of 60 school buses on an epic journey for peace and love.

Tennessee became the Promised Land, a place to put ideas into practice. It was here, on 1,700 acres of forest and a field, that The Farm, the world’s best-known intentional community, was born.

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