September 15, 2025

Two Sonoma communes’ psychedelic rise and fall (2017)

 Two Sonoma communes’ psychedelic rise and fall (2017)

Experience the days of free living and free love in Sonoma County.

Editors note: Bill Wheeler, founder of one of the communes, died Jan. 16, 2018 at the remote Occidental-area ranch that remained his home.
Early one summer evening in 1966, a group of artists sat in…