Tolstoy Farm's shift from free love to private lives in Washington
Tolstoy Farm near Davenport Washington, founded by Huw Piper Williams in 1963, has moved from communal living to private homes with middle class touches. Residents work outside, pay taxes, and favor monogamy after decades of free love and past arson, culminating in changes to privacy and family life.
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Davenport
Wash
Tolstoy Farm
Utopia
Washington Wheat Country
Huw “Piper” Williams
Edwall
Washington, D.C
Williams
Leo Tolstoy
Pat Reed
Ms. Reed
Rico Reed
Pat
Car Runs Red Light In Cal Fatal Crash
A speeding car ran a red light in Triwnda le Calif killing four and critically injuring six others. The first car, traveling about 90 mph, collapsed in a broadside collision with a second car. A couple and two others in the first car died. four male occupants and the couple’s two children in the second car were seriously hurt.
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Trwindale
Calif
UPI
Blacks Sign Up to Vote in Canton Mississippi
More than 100 black residents crowded a Canton post office to register with federal registrars sent by the Justice Department. Leaders complained that registrars were not sent to Flora, limiting enrollments in Madison County.Edward Blackmon, a Canton attorney and voting rights activist, noted insufficient time and staff. A registrars’ van from Flora accompanied the effort. officials said registrants must come to them. Federal registrars were ordered to five black-majority counties as part of the Voting Rights Act era outreach following civil rights concerns.
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Canton
Miss
Justice Department
Flora
Madison County
Edward Blackmon
Blackmon
William Bradford Reynolds
Civil Rights Division
Mississippi
Jesse Jackson
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Reed
Spokane
Terri
Lincoln County
Democratic Party
Omnijay
Epson
Osborne
OMNI
Salios Street
Syracuse
AP Lesamhoto Huw
Piper” Williams
Washington
Tolstoy
Larkspur
U.S
New York Times Service
Cickens
R.J. Collier
Atlanta
Flanigan
Sealy
Tranigan's
Bridge St
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