Stephen Gaskin an often tie-dye-clad hippie philosopher, a proud "freethinker" and iconic founder of The Farm died Tuesday morning at his home. He was 79.
Stephen and Ina May Gaskin
More than four decades ago, Mr. Gaskin an ex-combat marine with crystalline blue eyes led a caravan of nonconformists across the country, taking his band of beatnik brethren deep into the Tennessee woods and establishing what would become The Farm, one of the country's oldest surviving communes.
It was the vision of a man who spoke with pride about the lineage of freethinkers from which he came.
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