Stephen Gaskin Quotes from news outlets and some of his many friends from around the world regarding his life and his legacy. *Wikipedia* He was a Green Party presidential primary candidate in 2000 on a platform which included campaign finance reform, universal health care, and decriminalization of marijuana. He was the author of over a dozen books, political activist, a philanthropic organizer and a self-proclaimed professional Hippie en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gaskin *Washington Post* “He made us think about taking responsibility for your life ... and trying to give back as much as you possibly could,” Bates said. m.washingtonpost/?nid=top_pb_wplogo *NY TIMES* Stephen Gaskin, a Marine combat veteran and hippie guru who in 1971 led around 300 followers in a caravan of psychedelically painted school buses from San Francisco to Tennessee to start the Farm.... mobile.nytimes/2014/07/03/us/stephen-gaskin-hippie-who-founded-an-enduring-commune-dies-at-79.html?referrer=&_r=0 *UK Telegraph* “I’d been to so many different places I had to learn how to make friends on purpose,” (I can relate) telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10946714/Stephen-Gaskin-obituary.html *LA TIMES* We never let anybody call it a commune because people who live on communes are communist, he told interviewers for the Journal for the Study of Radicalism in 2010. We were a collective, which is scary enough for some people. latimes/local/obituaries/la-me-stephen-gaskin-20140706-story.html *SF Gate* 2003-03-02 04:00:00 PDT Lewis County, Tenn. -- Stephen Gaskin, founder of the largest hippie commune in America, had finished his tofu burger, eaten his stir-fried veggies and was digging into a bowl of soy milk ice cream... m.sfgate/bayarea/article/Twilight-of-hippiedom-Farm-commune-s-founder-2666839.php I visited the Farm in 75 and wondered at how they kept it all together, but the tofu they were selling was good stuff! They had something going on that was really GOOD. RIP Saint Stephen... https://icmag/ic/showthread.php?p=6446694
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