Barry
01-17-2018, 05:30 PM
<style type="text/css">p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'}</style>https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2015-10-04_15-56-29.png
Bill Wheeler, (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed)founder (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed) of famed Sonoma County hippie commune, dies at 77
(https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed)
CHRIS SMITH
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | January 16, 2018,10:11PM
42426Artist Bill Wheeler, who 50 years ago welcomed free spirits onto a west Sonoma County commune that affronted country neighbors but also helped along the region’s tentative embrace of liberal politics and non-mainstream lifestyles, died early Tuesday morning at the remote Occidental-area ranch that remained his home. He was 77 and had braved Parkinson’s disease and other ailments.
From 1968 until the hippie habitations on the ranch were razed by the county in 1973, Wheeler presided over the exercise in spontaneous, simple, musical, stoned, off-the-grid, clothing-optional existence. The commune grew from the demise of Lou Gottlieb’s nearby Morningstar Ranch, also shut down by the county.
Wheeler Ranch became nationally known as an intentional alternative to uptight middle-class values and the daily grind. At its peak, about 400 people grew vegetables, toileted in holes and coexisted on the isolated, wooded, 320 acres off Coleman Valley Road.
Continues here (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed)
Bill Wheeler, (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed)founder (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed) of famed Sonoma County hippie commune, dies at 77
(https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed)
CHRIS SMITH
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | January 16, 2018,10:11PM
42426Artist Bill Wheeler, who 50 years ago welcomed free spirits onto a west Sonoma County commune that affronted country neighbors but also helped along the region’s tentative embrace of liberal politics and non-mainstream lifestyles, died early Tuesday morning at the remote Occidental-area ranch that remained his home. He was 77 and had braved Parkinson’s disease and other ailments.
From 1968 until the hippie habitations on the ranch were razed by the county in 1973, Wheeler presided over the exercise in spontaneous, simple, musical, stoned, off-the-grid, clothing-optional existence. The commune grew from the demise of Lou Gottlieb’s nearby Morningstar Ranch, also shut down by the county.
Wheeler Ranch became nationally known as an intentional alternative to uptight middle-class values and the daily grind. At its peak, about 400 people grew vegetables, toileted in holes and coexisted on the isolated, wooded, 320 acres off Coleman Valley Road.
Continues here (https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7880897-181/bill-wheeler-founder-of-famed)