San Francisco: Earth Peoples Park, Inc., 1970. Three 11 x 8-1/2 in. sheets, mimeographed on rectos only, and bound with staple in top left corner. Irregular toning; short closed edge-tear to last leaf; faint creases from originally having been folded in three for mailing. Good. A scarce piece of ephemera; OCLC reports only two institutional holdings of this newsletter.
Third newsletter from the organizers of Earth Peoples Park, updating recipients on the group's search for a site for their non-profit communal land trust. With information on the group's timeline, information-gathering methods, organizational ethos, financial status, etc. In August, 1970, Earth Peoples Park purchased a 592-acre parcel of land in Norton, Vermont, which for two decades remained a freely accessible homesteading and camp site. The land was seized by the federal government in 1990, after residents unwittingly sold site-grown marijuana to an undercover narcotics agent. In 1994, the land was turned over to the state of Vermont, who re-designated it the Black Turn Brook State Forest.
