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Gaskin, Stephen

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Personal name headingGaskin, Stephen
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Variant(s)Stephen, 1935-2014
Gaskin, Steve
Birth date1935-02-16
Death date2014-07-01
Place of birthDenver (Colo.)
Place of deathSummertown (Tenn.)
Field of activityCommunal living
AffiliationFarm (Summertown, Tenn.)
Profession or occupationHippies
Found inHis The grass case, 1974.
His Rendered infamous, c1981: t.p. (Stephen Gaskin) jkt. (b. 1935)
New York times (online), viewed July 3, 2014 (in obituary published July 2: Stephen Gaskin; b. Feb. 16, 1935, Denver; d. Tuesday [July 1, 2014], Summertown, Tenn., aged 79; Marine combat veteran and hippie guru who in 1971 led around 300 followers in a caravan of psychedelically painted school buses from San Francisco to Tennessee to start the Farm, a commune that has outlived most of its countercultural counterparts while spreading good works from Guatemala to the South Bronx)
Associated languageeng