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  • 45th anniversary of Montague Farm, held at sister commune Wendell Farm.
  • Collage of Montague Farmers assembled for the 45th anniversary held at a sister commune in Wendell, MA.
  • Montague Farm commune residents struggling quite happlily in protest at Seabrook. No Nukes.
  • Liberation News Service hits Ripley Road. About as cool as it gets. Anti Vietnam War movement.
  • Sam Lovejoy at the 1979 No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden, which funded anti-nuclear activiities around the country for the better part of a decade. Hard to beilieve these massive events were organized by Montague Farmers from a small office in Turners Falls! No Nukes.
  • The farmhouse sometime before 1919.
  • People power in front of the farmhouse in the early commune era. Montague Farm commune.
  • The locals must have been scratching their heads! Montague Farm commune - beginnings of the "back to land movement".
  • Farmhouse porch in the 70's. Roof not sagging yet!
  • Montague farmers in their Sunday best!
  • The infamous Marshall Bloom, the force behind Liberation News Service, looking very much the part.
  • May Day 1969 at Montague Farm Commune.
  • Graphic of the nuclear weather tower falling down. The date was February 22, 1974. We have great respect for Sam Lovejoy, who risked several years in prison to stop a nuclear power plant from being erected near the farm.
  • Sam Lovejoy in his prime.
  • Man posing next to Kwan Yin. The statue was acquired by Zen Peacemakes and may return to Montague Retreat Center once an appropriate spot is prepared for her.
  • Zen Peacemakers gather for lunch in the courtyard.
  • Farmhosue with portable greenhouse.
  • Montague Farmers ready for chopping wood.
  • Montague Farmers with cow's milk.
  • Sue Mareneck did much to hold the farm together in its early years.
  • Classical chic.
  • Haying operation in the early Ripley era. The farm was first settled in 1798.
  • Montague Farmers gathered in front of the silo, which fell in a windstorm as the barn was renovated by Zen Peacemakers.
  • Montague Farmers gather firewood.
  • Roof of barn wing repaired circa 1976.
  • The beauties of Montague Farm.
  • Montague Farmers Dan and Nina Keller, now of Wendell Farm.
  • Should have cut that wood earlier!
  • View of the barn from the south circa 2012

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