Eric & Sally-Susan running old offset printing press in Harmony. The Leaves of Twin Oaks was printed on this press for many years.
Plowing the garden with a primitive plow; was this hand powered or was the tractor motor providing the power? Note tobacco barn in the distance and absence of other buildings.
Hand milking on a straw covered dirt floor.
Scotty prepares to signup for the coming week's labor.
Freddie Ann aka Leah: mulching the garden.
Gabe welding our first tractor, an Allis Chalmers. It broke a lot.
Rudy with Stokely, Oneida construction in the background. Note how little foliage there is in foreground and middle distance: no garden, no apple orchard, no mulberry hedge.
Doug & Steve, kids that lived at (not born at) Twin Oaks.
Ray / Jesse, the member photographer for this archival photo album.
Denise ties off a hammock in the first hammock shop, in Harmony. Note two people working at the printing press in background.
Connie chops firewood on a frosty day for Harmony.
Blues writing Winnie the Pooh stories.
A very history rich photo: as of 2007 the screened porch has been an enclosed kitchen for many years, the working shallow well in foreground was covered over long ago after it stopped providing water, the swing that hung from the Twin Oak has long ago fallen, the small pine to left of the Twin Oak is now a huge tree (all still true 2012).
This was our first walk-in freezer. It was used for many years. The shell of the shed remains to this date (2012).
Courtyard looking across Central field at Oneida building with only a frame and roof. TaChai building did not exist yet.
An early Twin oaks mailbox. Note the oak tree and Sadler farmhouse in the distance remain the same as of 2007. For many years all mail was delivered into and picked up at this roadside box; packages were left on the ground unless it was raining or the package was too large.
This is Rt 697, the principal road to Twin Oaks, very severely flooded.
A working water powered mill next to Twin Oaks land, waiting for the Hurricane Camille 1969 flood waters to recede. The mill owner, Edward Smith, was still living and operating the mill in these years.
A section of Rt 697 (Vigor Rd) destroyed by flood waters in 1969. The level of the road was raised and pavement added to this section after this flood.
Hurricane Camille flooded Rt 646 and Rt 697 in 1969. This is the bridge over the South Anna River by the Mill at corner of 646 (now Yanceyville Rd) and 697 (now Vigor Rd).
For years hammock stretchers were bent, by steaming and placing in a bending rack. Perhaps the barn pictured here is the one now used for storage?
(L to R) Walt and Kat weave a hammock on a flimsy-looking early weaving jig in Central field. Rudy observes the weaving. Note horse and rider in background at the right.
Rudy with recorder, Marnie, Ann, Stokely the dog, in front of Harmony.
Quite a line of famous names from early Twin Oaks are visible in this folk dance line: (R to L) Sally-Susan, Will, Piper, Leah, unknown-hidden, Josie, Steven Fisher, Eve Fisher, Gerri Frantz, Michael Goetz. Llano on the left in background. (Wow, two VWs in the parking lot.)
Marnie smooths a stretcher, with what appears to be a disk sander running in a table saw.
Production for TV 1970. Joshua on left, Rudy in the middle (?), unknown on the right.
New York Times reporter at Twin Oaks: Rudy on left, Kat in middle. Standing next to Harmony, which remained black-sheathed and with no siding for many years.
Luke rides horse named Smoky, Kat on the ground.
First communities conference, central field. Tobacco barn visible in the back, emblematic VW bus in front.
What's a commune without a dome, and what better excuse to build one than the need for shelter at the first Communities Conference? An early Twin Oaks AC tractor is in front pulling a wagon.
Raising a dome roof is perhaps the modern day equivalent, '60s style, of barn-raising.
Air crib: Early Twin Oaks had BF Skinner behaviorist roots. This air crib was made at Twin Oaks. Lisa is the baby contained therein.
Finishing dome assembly: Ronnie looking up at Gabe on ladder, Sally-Susan steadying ladder, Aiden with dark mustache.
Building of second Twin Oaks dormitory named Oneida: asphalt floor, steel posts, minimal insulation, no indoor plumbing; built very cheaply. Note Harmony is visible behind.
The original farmhouse with a hippie and a vintage Chevrolet. Llano is the most remodeled building at Twin Oaks by far. Note hammock jig on porch.
Llano kitchen circa 1969. Looked rather suburban in the early days.
Aiden on the ground fixing a VW bug.
Early poultry keeping. We still have these sheds though their uses have changed. Note Harmony behind, and a long gone apple tree.
Visitor accommodations in the early years in Harmony, the first building built by Twin Oakers.
