From Winter Quarter 1966, Interactions with other bands, Local Characters, and Medway Forest

The pictures are of their house in Skylonda. The closeup is from a recent real estate site.  In my time there was no blacktop or paving.

Below is a 2011 blurb about a film that was never completed.

This is a documentary film about a group of people known as the Anonymous Artists of America (aka AAA). After giving them 10,000 hits of LSD and a Buchla synthesizer, Richard Alpert (now Ram Dass) helped to launch the Bay Area band. They became notorious and shortly after the Summer of Love, the communards boarded their psychedelic bus and set off for southern Colorado, where they bought 600 acres and lived the essence of the American back-to-the-land movement.

Brief video (1:58) of Norman, Trixie, and Toni

The note below is from my Antioch documentation of psychedelic trips.

9. Anonymous Artists of America – La Honda, CA (1965)

P/R: All the time I was living down in Palo Alto I was also visiting the AAA, a commune up in the hills. They had been given a music synthesizer and a year’s supply of LSD by Richard Alpert. One time up there I took LSD with them, played a little music, and spent some time alone in the woods, watching the trees and birds and writing haiku poems about what I saw.

S/K: I learned more of the incredibly beautiful dimensions nature can take on under LSD. It was so easy to experience unity with the ocean, or the trees, or whatever I was with.