About
- Politics
- Religion
- Awards
- Counterculture Hall of Fame 2004
- First Right Livelihood Award/Alternative Nobel Prize 1980
- The Golden Bolt Award, from The Farm Motor Pool
- Writer — Books include:
- 40 Miles of Bad Road
- Monday Night Class
- Cannabis Spirituality
- An Outlaw in My Heart
- Rendered Infamous
- The Caravan
- Hey Beatnik! This Is The Farm Book
- The Grass Case (U.S. Supreme Court Brief) (with co-authors)
- This Season’s People
- Volume One: Sunday Morning Services on The Farm
- Mind At Play
- Amazing Dope Tales and Haight Street Flashbacks
- Founder and Early Director of the Farm
- at one time the largest hippy community in the world and still one of the most significant, Summertown, TN, 1971-
- Convenor of the Caravan
- a speaking tour of the United States with engagements in 42 states with a caravan of 50 school buses and 40 or so other vehicles and up to 400 hippies
- Teacher, Monday Night Class
- a weekly meeting of up to a thousand or fifteen hundred people where politics, religion, acid, sex, love, etc were discussed openly, 1967-1970
- Founder of Plenty International
- an Overseas Relief and Development Company that helped rebuild 1200 houses and put in 27 kilometers of water pipe in Guatemala and Clinics in Lesotho and southern Mexico as well as many other projects on four continents including the Jefferson-Award-winning South Bronx Ambulance project in New York City
- Felon
- Tennessee State Penitentiary, one to three-year sentence for grass, 1974
- Instructor, Creative Writing and General Semantics
- San Francisco State College (now University), 1964-66
- Married
- to Ina May (Middleton) Gaskin (a midwife and writer) since 1976
- Born
- February 16, 1935, in Denver, CO
- B.A. (cum laude), 1962, M.A., 1964
- San Francisco State College (now University)
- Military Service
- U.S. Marine Corps, 1952-55; saw combat in Korea 1953/1954
