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By Carla Theodore
Special to the Rappahannock News
As a union organizer I had learned that when you are doing something controversial, keep a low profile. Thus, as people joined me, in 1969 to help me create an intentional community in Rappahannock County, I discouraged interaction with the larger community. This was probably a mistake. I failed to realize how many people, here, would have been interested in what we were doing. Instead we were labeled a hippie commune and wild rumors were spread about us which may still be whispered today thirty years later.
Since we were educating our own six children, we decided to support our little community by funning a small boarding school. We copied the famous free school known as Summerhill where classes are voluntary on the assumption that healthy chil
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