41 The Farm
Summertown, TN 38483
stephengaskin@gmail.com

• Politics
  • Beatnik
• Religion
  • Hippy
• 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

• Albert Hoffman Library, Los Angeles, CA
• All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C.
• Ann Arbor Drug Help Group, Ann Arbor, MI
• Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
• Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA
• Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
• Awareness-ln-Action Drug Counseling Group, Omaha, NE
• Benefit for Central American Refugees, Vancouver, BC
• Bridge Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Brown University, Providence, RI
• California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
• California State, San Diego, CA
• Cannabis Cup, Amsterdam
• Canterbury House, Ann Arbor, MI
• Casper Citron Show, Radio, New York, NY
• CBS-TV, Washington, D.C
• Channel 29 Television, Philadelphia, PA
• Channel 3 TV, Florence, AL
• Channel 6 TV, Tulsa, OK
• Channel 8 TV, Tulsa, OK
• Charles Street Meeting Hall, Boston, MA
• Christopher Hills Ashram, London, England
• Cindy Adams Show, Monitor Radio, New York, NY
• Curtis Hall, Philadelphia, PA
• Davis Whole Earth, Sacramento, CA
• Earth Day, Columbia, MO
• Ecovillage Training Center, The Farm, Summertown, TN
• Edgehill Methodist Church, Nashville, TN
• Esalen, Big Sur, CA
• Face to Face Magazine, Nashville, TN
• Fairhaven College, Bellingham, WA
• Family Dog, San Francisco, CA
• Findhorn
• First Unitarian Church, Nashville, TN
• Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
• Fortwright College, Spokane WA
• Gabe Campbell's Church, Akron, OH
• Gathering of Minds, Psychedelic Illuminations Magazine
• Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
• Glide Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA
• Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
• Grinnel College, Grinnel, IA
• Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA
• Hot Mama's, Memphis, TN
• Inner Sanctum, Columbia, TN
• KAOS Radio
• KBOO Radio, Portland, OR
• KCPX-TV, Salt Lake City, UT
• KIMN Radio, Boulder, CO
• KOVA-TV, Tucson, AZ
• KPFA, San Francisco, CA
• KQIV-FM Radio, Portland OR
• KRMH FM Radio, Austin, TX
• KRNW-FM Radio, Boulder, CO
• KTIM-FM Radio, San Rafael, CA
• KWFM FM Radio, Tucson, AZ
• KXTV-TV, Sacramento, CA
• KZEL-FM Radio, Portland, OR
• Mademoiselle Magazine, New York, NY
• Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
• Mt. Angel College, Sublimity, OR
• NBC Network News, New York, NY
• NBC-TV, Tomorrow Show, New York, NY
• New Age Renaissance Fair, San Jose, CA
• New Dimensions Interview Syndicated to 600 NPR Stations
• New York Times, New York, NY
• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Ohio University, Athens, OH
• Pacifica Foundation Network, Washington D.C.
• Peoples' Ballroom, Ann Arbor, MI
• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• River City Free Trade Zone, Iowa City, IA
• Roy of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
• Salisbury State University, MD
• San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA
• Seattle Peace Heathens, Seattle, WA
• St. Stephen's School, Minneapolis, MN
• Starwood, Erie, PA
• State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
• Straight 'Theater, San Francisco, CA
• The Aurora, Atlanta, GA
• UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• Union Square, New York, NY
• United States Information Service, Washington D.C.
• Universily of Georgia, Athens GA
• University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
• University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
• University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
• University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
• University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
• University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
• University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
• University of Texas, Austin, TX
• University of Texas, El Paso, TX
• University of Wisconsin [city]
• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• Victoria Opera House, Dayton, OH
• WAAN Radio, Waynesboro, TN
• Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.
• Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• WBAI Radio, New York, NY
• WHAS-TV, Louisville, KY
• Whole Earth Fair, Boulder, CO
• Windows on the Cumberland, Nashville, TN
• Winter Star, OH
• WLAC Channel 5 TV, Nashville, TN
• WLAC Radio, Nashville, TN
• WMC Radio, Memphis, TN
• WNGE-TV, Nashville, TN
• WORT Radio, Madison, WI
• Wright State University, Dayton, OH
• WSAC Radio, Fort Knox, KY
• WSM Radio, Nashville, TN
• WSM-TV, Nashville, TN
• WTAL Radio, Lee Masters' Show, Louisville, KY
• Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Etc., etc.