<P> In 1967, Stephen Gaskin began to develop a philosophy of hippie perspectives at San Francisco State College, where he taught English, creative writing, and General Semantics . Gaskin's "Monday Night Class" became a broad, open discussion group involving up to 1,500 students and other participants from the San Francisco Bay Area . In 1970, Gaskin and his wife, Ina May Gaskin, led a caravan of 60 buses, vans and trucks on a cross country speaking tour . Along the way, they checked out various places that might be suitable for settlement . When they got back to San Francisco, they decided to return to Summertown, Tennessee, where they bought 1,700 acres (688 hectares) and created an intentional community called "The Farm ." The Farm became a widely respected, spiritually based hippie community that still thrives, although it is now more a hip village of 300 than a commune of 1,200 . The Farm continues in many public - service and philanthropic enterprises through the Farm Midwifery Center, Plenty International, and other sub-organizations . </P> <Dl> <Dt> Strawberry Fields </Dt> </Dl> <P> The second commune on the west coast </P> <P> Started by former Boston stockbroker and later probation officer Gridley Wright, Strawberry Fields, named after the song by the Beatles, occupied forty four acres of land in Decker Canyon, in the arid hills above Malibu, California . Nine adults and six children made up the original community, housed in two old houses and a barn . Over fifty people ended up there during its five months of existence . It was a stopping off place for Timothy Leary as well as other well known figures in the psychedelic movement . Annie and the Family were one of the original families to take up residence there; they later went on to take part in the magical mystery tour and to live in a number of other communes in Europe . </P>

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