Lets see if I remember: 1st at the end of 1st road, on that dogleg that went along the meadow there, where we used to park for Ragweed day and to go to the swimming hole... Next we moved to Dogwood blossom, before it was called that and was mostly just a tent with a barnlike addition... Then we went to the Florida Farm where we lived at the pool house, the Crome house, and mostly at the Camp... Then to the New York Farm after a few days at the Bronx center, but I blew out there facing the long winter and we headed out to California where we started up the Ranchita Health Center... Then back to the Farm where we lived at Kissing Tree, then Raccoon Run, then moved our school bus out 5th road, semiattached to the 5th road solar house. Then to Nashville for 15 years...

Who were your neighbors and friends on the Farm?

I'm going to just take a stab at this memory, it was 25 years ago. Past the flour mill and take a right at the first road. First house on the left was where Robert and Virginia, James and Judith, and can't remember the other couple's name, John Shneider and his new wife whoever. Karen and I shared the bus with John and ? That was spring thru winter '76, tho we didn't stay in that house the whole time. I was a tripper for real, and was in and out of the gate, trying to escape the fix-me crew. I even thought I could escape it by moving to another house on the Farm, like they'd be into some whole other philosophy or something. Eventually, I realized I'd have to move off the Farma and started working in Nashville. Karen eventually divorced me and I was back in the world again.

Robert and Virginia and James and Judith Dodge were some of the real Farm heavyweight movers and doers. John and Charlotte? What are you doing these days, Don?

Hi Paul, also there was John Coate and his wife at the time. I was a graphic artist for 12 years and made webpages part-time for the last 6 years. Just in January my company has been letting me do webpages full-time and I also figured a way to make low-cost cds for them using cheap shareware and pdf. My fourth wife and I have been together now 8 years, I was relocated twice, once to Philadelphia and then to Raleigh. Oh also at that house was Lee _____ and his wife, Lee filmed Stephen's talks. I lived in Santa Cruz county in California for most of the time after I left Tennessee with some time spent in Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Arizona. I lived for 8 years 2 blocks from the boardwalk in Santa Cruz which was pretty nice. We bought a house in an "intentional" community 3 years ago, but only intentional in that it's ecologically intentional. Not a spiritual community by any stretch. The idea is to live in harmony with the earth, not destroy the forests, be considerate of your neighbors, don't make a huge profit from the development of the community. I give the creator of this idea a lot of credit for something do-able for the average person. Here's a link http://www.altadore.com/. We bought 11 acres for less than $4k per, and our total payout was around $150k which won't buy you an old fixer upper in the bay area. That's with a new house, we bought one of those factory-built modulars that they truck in on semis then hoist onto the foundation with a crane. 1800 sq ft for $75k which is pretty cheap for a house of that size. The subcontracting was a pain but well worth it.

That's pretty neat. I see on your map athat most of the lots are sold, especially along Stinking Creek. These are nice size lots, what are the remaining 10, 11 and 23 acre lots going for and why are these still for sale? (less desireable location?). That altadore is a very well designed website, it's cool the way you can click on a parcel and see pictures of it. What other websites have you done? Is this intentional community in the Santa Cruz area, the website doesn'tt really say where it is except that it's on the Pittsboro Moncure Road, wherever that is.

-Sounds like you go by Terry, right? That's pretty neat. I see on your map that most of the lots are sold, especially along Stinking Creek. -yeah, we lucked out and got one of those lots along the creek when we bought almost 4 years ago. We were actually the first "official" people to move in. These are nice size lots, what are the remaining 10, 11 and 23 acre lots going for and why are these still for sale? (less desireable location?). -Around 60k for 10-11 acres. Yes, the property features aren't as nice. They all have 15 year growth evergreen which is about 20 feet tall and still kind of spindly. But they grow pretty quickly. They're still nice lots and a good price. That altadore is a very well designed website, it's cool the way you can click on a parcel and see pictures of it. What other websites have you done? -I didn't do that one, but I know how they did it. I co-designed our company's site http://energy.tycoelectronics.com/. This guy in Germany did most of the work, but I know how he did everything but the javascript pulldowns. I'm just learning how to do that. Is this intentional community in the Santa Cruz area, the website doesn'tt really say where it is except that it's on the Pittsboro Moncure Road, wherever that is. -It's in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. 15 miles south of Chapel Hill and 5 miles west of Jordan Lake which is this large man-made reservoire. It's a nice area, but in NC, they do a tremendous amount of clear-cutting of the forests, and they just rape the shit out of them when they do. Pick the best trees and just doze everything else and leave it all scattered. When they do that it looks like a bomb was dropped almost. But then everyone wants wood and paper and plywood so that's a problem. Our community is at least not cutting all the trees, but everyone's house is made of wood, and even tho no hunting is allowed, most of the people I've met there eat meat, so there's a bit of hypocrisy going on there. I'm vegetarian but our house is wood and I print on paper, etc. The answer is in plastics, like that guy told Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. I think there's probably synthetic materials that could be developed tofunction like wood.

So, do you have a home page? Hey, we're missing Ragweed today! I guess some of us have to work. Maybe next year?

As a matter of fact I do have a homepage http://ourworld-top.cs.com/Oak1day566/index.htm where I've been doing my own do-it-yourself bodhisattva thing, entrapping people to work towards their own awakening by helping others, I'm not especially happy with that site, thinking of completely renovating it and doing something completely different. The new theme would be along the lines of "awakening isn't weird, it's just natural" and it's the so-called normal people who are aberrated. I still remember seeing someone show me this video clip of people walking on Telegraph Avenue in Berkely and everyone was walking backwards but this one long haired guy was walking forwards. I'm just starting to understand why awakened folks thruout history have had such compassion for the suffering masses. Never been to ragweed! Never been back to the Farm since I left 25 years ago either! It's kind of like this video of Stephen that I have where he's talking to kids at Wellesley College and he said some people realized they were Republicans and asked themselves what they were doing living on the Farm. For me the Farm was for Saints and I never was one of those nor did I ever aspire to be. I think that's a realization I just haven't had yet.