their own garden, not to mention recreational drugs. Often, but not always, they shared meals in the main house. Many of the young men had been childhood friends who had at-
tended elementary, junior high and/or high school together. They packed their instruments and brought their wives or girlfriends to live on the land. The braless, barefoot women wore flowing handmade skirts and crochet tops. Unshaven legs and armpits, pierced ears and long, flowing tresses (on both men and women), were the style of the day. The main house, a funky
old structure with a set of stairs leading to a wide porch, is where the long-haired guys would get together and play rock and roll music. The hippie mamas cooked meals or made goat cheese from the goats on the land while nursing a child (or with one on their hip), while older children would dash in and out playing.
Were aLL in it together. one of the there Were no organizeD ruLes.
Not everything was always rosy with as many as 14 people
sharing the bathroom in the main house. Tension was over the one and only shower and indoor toilet, as well as the washing machine, several people recalled. There were open-air outhouses in the woods. “It got hard at
the big house,” Pam Scott recalls, “cha- otic, dirty. You’d clean it up and it’d get dirty again.” The women
took on the traditional roles of cleaning and cooking, while the men often preferred to play music: day
TOP, milk from the goats on the farm was made into cheese. MIDDLE, Kathy and Kenny Bortolazzo with baby Leanna.
BOTTOM, Don Bullick, Jerry Gottsdanker, Jay O’Rourke, Claire Gottsdanker, and Kenny Bortolazzo, standing, holding his daugher Leanna, along with the dogs Tommy and Lucius.
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