![]() Over the last day or so I have been working on publicity stuff and came upon the Sunnyridge Commune website. ![]() I idolized Reva, and in my novel took some pieces of her experience, adding what I’d read about communes like The Hog Farm in California and the notorious Manson Family to create a fictional commune that felt authentic. After a few months they went back to Oregon. In their chaotic New Haven apartment Reva sprouted beans in the bathtub, baked bread, cultured her own yogurt. For a brief time, when her marriage began to unravel, Reva left Sunnyridge, bringing her three kids, Eva, Aura, and Indra, back east to live near her parents. ![]() Though the specifics of their daily lives were never mentioned, when I met them I was captivated by their free-spirited, non-materialistic way of seeing the world. Reva, my sister-in-law, her husband and their kids lived on one such commune, Sunnyridge, in southern Oregon, shown here in the summer of 1970. ![]() My novel Disappear Home begins in a hippie commune in the early 1970s. ![]()
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