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Papers of the Twin Oaks Community, Accession #9840 -s, -t, -u, -v, -w, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was received in five groups as a deposit from the Twin Oaks Community, Route 4, Box 169 Louisa, Virginia 23093. The first part, 9840-s, was received on August 11, 2000. The second part, 9840-t, was received on May 18, 2001. The third part, 9840-u, was received on August 16, 2001. The fourth part of the collection, 9840-v, was received on December 3, 2001. The fifth part, 9840-w, was received on December 17, 2004.
Twin Oaks is a collective settlement established in 1967 in Louisa County, Virginia and inspired by B.F. Skinner's "Walden Two. " The leadership of the Twin Oaks Community is a group of two or three members who serve on a board called Community Planners, the terms of which rotate after a designated period of time. Members write opinion and idea papers and post ideas on a community bulletin board in order to contribute their input regarding all of the decisions made by the community planners.
This collection consists of 11,073 items, 48 Hollinger boxes, and 240 linear feet and includes information about the councils, controversial issues, correspondence, and culture of the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia from 1970-1989 and 1997.
Most of the papers are organized by councils composed of Twin Oaks members, including the Agriculture Council, Child Council, Construction and Utilities Council, Culinary Council, Domestic Council, Health Council, HEW Council, Income Council, Office Council, Outreach Council, Planning Council, Support Council, and Transportation and Maintenance Council. These papers consist of meeting minutes, reports, planning notes, surveys, trade-off games, and budget priorities.
Areas of special interest include photographs of cows that live at Twin Oaks (under the Agriculture Council), opinion and idea papers that are written by members, planner's meeting minutes that reveal the inner workings of Twin Oaks and individual personalities and relationships of the members and planners. (Opinion and idea papers and planner's meeting minutes can be found under each council depending on the subject.)
There is also information under the Income Council that describes the products and work that is marketed at Twin Oaks such as hammocks, tofu, indexing for the government and designs for numeric keyboards.
The community has discussions regarding ratios of men to women in the community and a desire to create a more sincerely balanced society of men and women. The discussion is included under the Outreach Council.
Another interesting item in the collection is the adoption of a South American refugee family into the Twin Oaks Community. More information about this can be found under the Support Council.
Under the Planning Council and Legal Issues there is information about a member of Twin Oaks who is accused of armed robbery, grand larceny, felonious assault and use of a fire arm against a Charlottesville Jeweler, George Moody in 1980. Moody was later murdered in 1996 during an unrelated robbery. The papers include discussions encouraging members to give information to the police, debates about how to handle the remaining possessions of the member since he was expelled and legal advice regarding compensation for the items stolen.
Also under the Planning Council and Legal Issues is a plan of prevention against the possible return of an ex-member who is feared to be violent.
Other areas of interest are the controversial issues that arise in the community such as the issue of nudity around visitors and its impact on teenagers; noise; smoking; vandalism and other infractions. One notable incident is when the planners allow a senior citizen the special privilege of watching television when it is not allowed for other members and members are found in her room watching a program together and refuse to stop. Another issue for members is that they have to earn quotas in hammock making while their other skills are being ignored. While members and planners struggle to work out these controversies, the papers show their strong desire to be a community that loves and respects its members.
This collection is divided into four series, the first of which is Councils and is arranged alphabetically by each council name. The second series consists of correspondence, including letters between members and visitors or members who are away, and is arranged alphabetically by topic. The third series concerns controversial issues that have developed at Twin Oaks and is also arranged alphabetically by topic. The fourth series is Culture, arranged alphabetically by topic, and includes artwork, books, children's activities, education, and food menus, as well as publications about Twin Oaks, spirituality, feminism, and values. There are opinion and idea papers for almost every topic that is pertinent to Twin Oaks, and they are included throughout this collection under the various subcategories organized by council.
Budget proposal and dairy farm planning worksheet; updates on the health of the cows; 2 photographs of the cows; opinion and idea papers about cows.
Farm reports and proposals; opinion and idea papers about the need for long term planning for farming and the benefits and costs of farming.
Planners report on establishing a budget and priorities for farming; plan-writing worksheet; survey plat; letters to planners requesting funds and/or equipment; request for a three day permaculture gathering; request to rent or hire hay balers; request to use the central field for grazing; Twin Oaks farm newsletters titled Deep Furrows .
Yearly cash flow analyses; list of non-income farm fixed assets; figures on possible selling of machinery and expenses; opinion and idea papers on farming.
Survey about self-sufficiency in food and the effects of population on agricultural land needs.
Reports; requests for piping and irrigation in the fall; opinion and idea papers about organic farming and other issues; garden and orchard plan-writing worksheets.
Notes on controlling houseflies; proposals for compost pit; research paper on compost; meeting notes.
Progress report; list of herbs and sketched layout.
Letter to planners requesting a new gate for the field; information about bees; plan-writing worksheet; proposal to grow mushrooms.
Reports on the health and progress of pigs; warning notes about feeding pigs; a schedule for the pig program.
Proposal and notes about raising gosling at Twin Oaks; recommendation about moving the location of the chickens or discontinue raising them.
Yard plan-writing worksheet; reports and proposals on flower, tree, shrub plantings and sheds; opinion and idea paper about the purchase and placement of a Japanese Peace Pole; opinion and idea paper and policies regarding keeping the yard clean.
Meeting notes.
Board meeting notes; meeting agendas; letter from Twin Oaks to people interested in their child program.
Meeting notes; budget sheet; report on 6 month audit for child council; notes on child transportation budget; 1988-1989 budget worksheet; opinion and idea paper on child program by ex-member Paul Zohav.
Results of the primary poll; child behavior norms and rules; reorganization policy; adult/child sexual activity policy .
Plan-writing worksheet for child council; OTRA request form; budget sheet.
One letter of complaint involving children.
Results and notes from planning child housing poll.
Process in hiring facilitators; progress reports; questions regarding the child program; meeting notes.
Meta meeting notes and reports from various Twin Oaks members; OS meeting notes 1981, Feb 4.
Packet on child labor and budgets; statistic on child population in 1988.
Committee report; necessary building maintenance; plan-writing worksheet; meeting notes; opinion and idea papers on various maintenance projects; plans for the chimney brush room.
List of construction workers and their schedules; list of projects; goods and services inventory; expense sheets; meeting notes; updates on maintenance projects such as the greenhouse or sink and shower replacement; requests for drink machine; draft of Energy Self-Sufficiency Loan Proposal; update on construction of Modern Times.
Letters to planner requesting equipment maintenance; plan-writing worksheet; technical manual for organ.
Area worksheet/plan-writing worksheet and economic plans.
Heat loss worksheet; proposed layout of boiler room; wood heating; tips for using air-conditioners; opinion and idea papers.
Reports and proposals.
Opinion and idea papers on the construction and naming of Aurora, the new visitor center; labor chart for construction; list of materials; invoices and blueprints (some oversize).
Notes on remodeling including labor costs.
Updates on its construction.
Notes and discussion about naming Zhankoye, the new Kitchen Dining Complex; budget reports; meeting notes about going over the budget; list of equipment needed for opening; landscaping around Zhankoye.
Revised waterworks regulations; letter from the department of health concerning the waterworks regulations and the operations permit compliance; STP planning worksheet; opinion and idea papers about the river and warnings about what goes into the drains and toilets; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University certificate of wastewater treatment operator for a Twin Oaks member.
Publication by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Packet on various issues regarding soil by the extension division at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Reports from the Department of Health show bacteriological contamination in the samples of water that they tested; plan-writing worksheet; purchase approved for a generator; information about the new ventilation system; information regarding the need for new water pipes; opinion and idea papers about the Zhankoye heating system.
Opinion and idea papers on cleaning and organizing the woodshop; lumber storage shed needs repair; planning worksheet.
Notes about needing more chefs and surveys about food; opinion and idea papers on serving lines and second helpings.
Food budget worksheet; food policies; notes on purchasing coffee and soy products; opinion and idea papers.
Food news updates; food budget; introduction to food at Twin Oaks for visitors; news clipping on bread; recipes; information and notes about purchasing food processing equipment from the Ball Jar Corporation; milk processing and production; food processing budget worksheet
Food updates.
Zhankoye Gazhette [sic] (newsletters); suggestion notebook 1986.
Budget worksheet and policies; opinion and idea papers.
Opinion and idea papers; meeting notes; survey about having microwave at Twin Oaks.
Flyer about nuclear radiation.
Miscellaneous artwork from Twin Oaks members.
Updates about location and policies on community clothes; budget plan-writing worksheets.
Member/Planner apology; opinion and idea paper about different needs and views on the meaning of "home."
Information on new homemade soap; opinion and idea paper on art gallery; notice-free walls; budget plan-writing worksheet; notes on house cleaning.
Meeting notes and ideas from the Jupiter Business.
Policies; opinion and idea papers on various pets; budget planning worksheet.
Notes, debates, and discussions pertaining to pets.
Room assignments and floor plans.
Juniper Branch Planner's poll on small living groups; completed surveys by members and poll results; 1982 small living group handbook suggestions for reorganization of domestic areas; meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Information on flip, a program that gives out random items to members by chance; job description of trusterty [sic] managers; notes on flips as loan (trusterty) and flips policy change; opinion and idea papers.
Notes composed by various members present at the meetings.
Notes composed by various members present at the meetings.
Final report from the Ageing in Utopia Task Force; notes on labor quota changes for members over fifty years old.
Various economic plans concerning health.
Various announcements pertaining to chiropractic health.
Dental budget worksheet and other notes on dental issues.
Papers documenting the health of particular members.
Health team policies; new member health information form; new member requirements; first-aid classes; meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Policies concerning HIV testing; introduction/drawing from a HIV positive guest speaker; opinion and idea papers on sexuality and AIDS; notes on HIV/AIDS issue; e-mail from the AIDS/HIV Service Group about volunteering
Complaints and information relating to insect infestations.
Information and correspondence on PEACH, a new insurance program adopted by Twin Oaks and the FEC.
Information and correspondence on PEACH, a new insurance program adopted by Twin Oaks and the FEC.
Policies and updates on several members at mental hospitals; information on leave for family emergency; requests for leaves of absence; information on Lifespring, a group that creates educational-experiential self-transformation workshops; information on counseling services.
Petition against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; notes on fire safety; handout on wood smoke; information on radon; warnings about toys distributed by Johnson and Johnson; information on preventive health care.
Notes and proposals on adult members getting education; budget planning worksheet.
Sewing business; massage table carrying cases; opinion and idea paper; proposals; notes about businesses at Twin Oaks.
Letters to Twin Oaks from East Wind community; proposal to bring in Short Mountain members to help out with production and other proposals; outline of job description; opinion and idea papers; evaluation and value of hammock production; meeting notes; information notes about Pier 1; letters to Pier 1; policies about attending fairs to sell hammocks; budget sheet; magazine clippings.
Questions and answers on agreement; agreement form; opinion and idea papers; 1983 Joint Hammocks Agreement.
Opinion and idea paper about the quality of backpacker hammocks; correspondence of Hudson Bay Outfitters; report.
Outline of general manager job; resignation letter; meeting notes.
Meeting notes.
Opinion and idea paper about winter production; maximum and minimum assignable hours.
Instruction to install hammock chairs and oakweaves; opinion and idea paper; license agreement.
Notes on Hammock Incentive Program, or HIP; auction information in the hammock shop; hammock shop events; children's pictures.
Sketch of hammock jig; notes on measurement for the jig.
Information on OPP, a program that allows members to work in hammock production to benefit certain projects instead of labor credits; meeting notes.
Information on OPP, a program that allows members to work in hammock production to benefit certain projects instead of labor credits; meeting notes.
Proposal to allow beepers; protocol on answering the phone; opinion and idea papers.
Documents pertaining to the production of hammocks.
Update from hammock manager; 1978 evaluation of hammock and hammock-related production; opinion and idea paper on hammock business and members involved; quarterly sales report; reports known as "products informant;" income and labor analysis; opinion and idea papers.
Proposals; summary about time at "Warner Swazey;" sketches; survey and meeting notes.
Updates on purchasing sawmill; letter from a member.
Proposal for hammock production and other issues like storage and braidmaking; floor plan of new hammocks office.
Notes on processing stretchers for hammocks; opinion and idea papers; meeting notes.
Income statements.
Photographs and negatives; information on macramé kit.
Catalog of chimney brushes; updates on status of chimney brushes; evaluation for producing chimney brushes; application for change in space use; meeting reports proposal; letter from business.
Proposals and progress reports.
Proposal for starting an herb plant selling business; opinion and idea papers.
Progress report; opinion and idea papers; instructions; application for space use; letter to clients such as the State Department; publication of an article in Choice on indexing titled "Chelsea House: Modern Critical Views," May 1987; planning budget worksheet.
Correspondence with the University of Haifa.
Proposals and information on copying VHS tapes for a non-profit consortium.
Widget template; correspondence with businesses on custom ordered cabinets; sketches of a custom cabinet; new industry proposal; information and updates on widgets; photographs of a numeric keyboard.
Magazine clippings on small businesses, solar hardware, and canneries; notes on money-making projects with small capital.
Proposals on sewing baby carriers, truck gardening, and typesetting; list of criteria compiled by the New Industry Crew.
List of services available by the Twin Oaks Community; update on members working outside of Twin Oaks; policy on outside work and odd jobs; request for odd jobs; information on "The School of Living;" financial report; letter to planners.
Drafts and final agreement of manure contract with Carlsons for transporting and disposing of pig manure; termination of contract.
Policies; notes on products to give as trade or gift; PFF member list.
Various financial reports; packets on product information.
Tax policy; opinion and idea papers on taxes; agreement for the Louisa alternative fund and escrow account; 1998 budget request worksheet; letter to IRS; updates and notes on the court case Twin Oaks vs. IRS; reading on taxes and religious and apostolic associations.
Information on petty cash voucher; financial advisor and control reports; planwriting budget worksheet; cash variance paper; money budget report.
Opinion and idea papers on equity and privacy; proposal for the use of taxonomy.
Policies about money for individuals; opinion and idea papers about personal money policy; personal money survey; proposal from planners; allowance for members; allowance input summary.
Proposals and meetings on the Earned Leaving Fund (ELF); accounts of various leaving fund costs and members.
Questions about long term borrowing; kitchen dining costs; information about Twin Oaks debts; opinion and idea paper about fire insurance and updates on medical insurance.
Information on loans for departing and existing members; loan contract forms; loan requests; policies; opinion and idea papers
Information on loans for departing and existing members; loan contract forms;loan requests; policies; opinion and idea papers.
Personal money surveys of Twin Oaks members.
Policies; proposals; opinion and idea papers.
Policies, proposals, and opinion and idea papers on vacation earnings; vacation earnings questionnaire and survey; meeting notes.
Policies, proposals and opinion and idea papers on vacation earnings; vacation earnings questionnaire and survey; meeting notes.
Proposal for vacation fund policy; roster of member seniority.
Phone bill report; plan-writing budget worksheet; priority requests; meeting notes and opinion and idea papers.
Opinion and idea papers on mailbox and mail system; postage planning budget worksheet; office supply policy.
Articles about Twin Oaks, including "A Special Community " by Ed Gottlieb from the publication Sun Dial , Summer 1993; "Community Living " by Margaret Oaks; "Eight Years After " by Susan Oaks; "It's The Community's Business " by Larry Lenske and Mikki Wenig; "Demystifying 'Man Made' Technology " by Heidi and Joyce; "Twin Oaks " by Vince Zager; brochure with guidelines for visitors at Twin Oaks.
Information about catalogs and products from the Community Market, a group of participating communes; invoices for paid accounts from Twin Oaks.
Documents pertaining to conferences held and attended by Twin Oaks members.
Information on rural activists' conferences.
Decision not to publish two publications; discussion of policies and procedures for visitors and members ranging from greetings to how to teach new skills.
Information about the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, a group of intentional communities spread out across North America; proposals; survey of responses from various communes' advertisements.
Constitution and by-laws; membership forms; discussion of nudity in brochures; correspondence; federation committee planning budget worksheet; job descriptions for secretary and facilitators.
Preparations for the tenth anniversary including requests for artwork and articles.
Agendas, reports, and minutes from the Federation of Egalitarian Communities meetings.
Spreadsheet on hammock sales; advertisement for futons. OS Production Costs Variance Report.
Photographs and greeting cards.
Federation of Egalitarian Communities Newsletter ; Inter communities Newsletter ; Communion , Winter 1986; Communion , Spring 1986; Community Soundings , A Journal of Community , volume II, number 2; A Journal of Community, volume II, number III, December 21, 1987; A Journal of Community , First Anniversary Issue, March 21, 1986.
Members travel all over the world to FEC Conferences and present papers that they have written.
Proposal to develop an urban community.
Conferences and picnics; report of FIC meetings; by-laws of the FIC; list of other alternative societies. OS Medical expenditures chart.
Information on the Inter-communities Network, an informal association of intentional communities that share some common values; plans for gatherings and opportunities for recruitment with Shannon Farm, Springtree, Yogaville, North Mountain, Common Ground, Sojourners Orchard and Farm, Gesundheit Institute, Seven Oaks, and Innisfree Village; brochures and directories on the network and the participating communities.
Survey of population and availability at Twin Oaks; reports indicating concerns about growth.
Twin Oaks sends out a letter to publications asking friends to lend them money.
Information about volunteering local services; policies about neighbors; incidents with neighbors; political opinions; public library service and Twin Oaks; compromises among Twin Oaks residents. OS letter to members regarding Louisa Supervisor.
Program for a local talent show; community service opportunities; note about housing a homeless teenager; notes against purchasing guns; local relations planning budget sheet; letter from a local church thanking Twin Oaks for a received donation; certificate for citizen service from Louisa Against Litter Council.
Requests for articles and artwork; budget planning worksheet.
Meeting notes; proposals and ideas; procedures for becoming a member; member issues; recruiting women.
Letters to newspapers and periodicals advertising Twin Oaks; correspondence with other communes for recruiting purposes; discussion about being included in "Arthur Frommer's Travel Almanac 1988; " planning budget worksheet.
Meeting reports and informational packets regarding The School of Living, a tax-exempt, philanthropic, and educational network
Brochures and information about the Unitarian Universalist Twin Oaks fellowship that provides educational opportunities to community children; proposal to recruit a Unitarian Universalist minister.
Several proposals for a new community inside the city of Charlottesville.
Information pertaining to a controversial reporter's stay at Twin Oaks.
Policies; meeting notes; glossary of terms; guidelines for visitors.
Policies; meeting notes; glossary of terms; guidelines for visitors.
Questionnaires about how the visitors heard about Twin Oaks with questions about their health and length of visit.
Summary and analysis of responses.
Correspondence from visitors thanking members for the tour; information about the difficulties of giving tours; Rainbow Family wants to borrow space to have a gathering at Twin Oaks.
Proposal for a slideshow to recruit more women; an article about Twin Oaks titled "Indigenous Socialism in the United States, A Feminist Perspective on Intentional Creation of Alternative Community " by Batya Winbaums; articles with interviews of women at Twin Oaks and at East Wind.
Sufi Retreat Center brochure; correspondence between communities; list of retreats.
Newsletters.
Photographs; description of Aloe Community; Federation of Egalitarian Communities Newsletter; correspondence about a disagreement between Another Way Community and Aloe.
Brochures about Alpha Farm; correspondence between Twin Oaks and the Alpha Farm, the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, and East Wind.
Brochures; a photograph.
Brochures; notes on fertility; correspondence between Appletree and Twin Oaks.
Brochures.
Letter from a former member about the possibility of starting a new cooperative living group; information about journalist Art Rosenblum and The Peace Factory; Aquarian Alternatives Newsletters including an article by Art Rosenblum.
Happy Winter Holidays letter to Twin Oaks.
Bear Tribe catalog; Bear Tribe activities; letter from the editor of the Bear Tribe; press releases about publications by the Bear Tribe; list of products from the Bear Tribe.
Correspondence with Twin Oaks; The Breitenbush Newsletter ; advertisement for cooks; literature and applications; map.
Correspondence with Twin Oaks; an article titled The 400-Year-Old Commune by Jon Swan; an article titled A New Hutterian Community Was Founded in the publication Kibbutz Studies , February 1987; Bruderhof communities publications, The Plough , numbers 15 and 17-20; The Plough Catalog 1988-1989.
Information about the Builders Community; publications of the Builders Quarterly 1987-1988.
Brochures; newsletters and other literature on Camphill Village; annual reports.
Brochures and newsletters; The Town Forum Community Report ; The Cerro Gordo News, 1979-1980 and 1982.
Brochures.
Correspondence about the Chrysalis Community joining the Federation of Egalitarian Communities; legal contracts; brochures and articles.
Brief description of the center; a publication, Pine Needles , Summer Camp edition volume 40, number 1, 1979.
Brochures; newsletter The Golden Dawn.
Correspondence giving introduction; brochures.
Five editions of The Collective Networker Newsletter .
Article titled Making Communities Work featuring an interview with David Thatcher in Simply Living; resources for information on intentional communities; publication titled Communes Network Directory .
Newsletter.
Newsletter.
Brochures; questionnaire; list of resource books; Community Service Newsletters .
Literature and policies.
Brochures; correspondence with Twin Oaks; articles and reports.
Photographs; map and introduction paper.
Information on the Dunmire Hollow Spring Fling and map.
Newsletters.
Articles; planners meeting notes; trade-off game reports; newsletters; correspondence; opinion and idea papers.
Newspaper articles; planners meeting notes; new member information and charts; newsletters; opinion and idea papers about labor and employment; photographs.
An article titled The Community of Eden published by the Eden Community.
Brochure; press release; newsletters titled Integrity International .
Brochure.
Newspaper articles; copies of the publications Plenty and New Age .
Various publications relating to The Fellowship of the Inner Light and their beliefs.
An article in The New York Times about the transcendentalist commune.
One community service newsletter; excerpts of a letter from [Allen] to Twin Oaks member [Laird] within the commune.
Various newsletters; informational leaflets; flyers for the Gesundheit Institute.
One bound Journal of Grey Gables Community .
One brochure for the community; one scrapbook page with two pictures.
One informational leaflet; one article about the commune.
Directory listing for the commune in the Guide to Cooperative Alternatives .
One edition of Highlander Reports , the commune newsletter.
The first newsletter from the community.
The Institute for Social Ecology's pamphlet of 1986 program offerings.
Various publications for the community with multiple editions of the Jubilee Partners Report .
One document describing the beliefs and goals of the Julian Woods Community.
Various newsletters about the non-monogamous community; flyers; informational publications.
Newsletters; pamphlets; various other publications relating to the Christian commune.
Publications; program guides for the Yoga and rehabilitation center.
Newsletters; letters; photographs.
Directory listing; newsletter; informational pamphlet for the commune.
Letters to new members; flyers describing the commune.
One newsletter publication by The Love Family.
One volume of the Mariposa School Newsletter .
One newsletter titled the Matagiri Collaboration for the Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center.
Letters; informational documents for The Mettanokit Community.
One letter and one journal sent from the Miccosukee Land Co-op to Twin Oaks.
Photographs from other communes and organizations.
Newsletter titled Spiral News from Moniteau Farm.
The Mount Shasta community newsletter sent to Twin Oaks.
Newsletters; brochures from conferences; a bibliography of communes from Indiana State University's Special Collections.
Four copies of the Neighborhood Caretaker , a Journal of Neighborhood Health Sciences.
Newsletters and pamphlets about the emerging New Hope Community.
Community Newsletters and letters.
Letters and informational publications regarding the New Vrindaban Community.
Two letters pertaining to the Our Land Community.
Informational packets and flyers for the Padanaram community; newspaper article about Padanaram in ids from 3/22/79.
Packet for the Resident Study Program at Pendle Hill.
Two pamphlets advertising for the food and service available at Philoxia's Bed and Breakfast.
Informational flyers and leaflets for Ponderosa Village.
Letters and meeting minutes for Posehn's Community.
Photos and publications regarding festivals, program information, and newsletters.
Newsletter and information about visits with the guest program of The Renaissance Community.
Information packet for the Round Mountain Cooperative Community.
One newsletter and many photographs of Sandhill.
Documents about The School of Living and the Green Revolution.
Informational packets and flyers for Seven Oaks.
Newsletters, letters, and miscellaneous documents from the Shannon Community.
Newsletters, informational packets, and miscellaneous documents for the commune.
Newsletters and program packets for the Sirius Community.
Five Springtree newsletters and six photographs of the community.
Numerous publications of The Stelle Group Letter as well as other documents pertaining to the community. OS Map of Stelle.
One letter about starting a commune.
Newsletters for the Ultimate Vehicle Family.
Village Oz pamphlet titled General Information and Calendar .
Documents concerning Walden Farm and the Circle of Angels.
Documents pertaining to various Yoga organizations and institutes.
Description of the Still Mountain Society Summer Program.
Two newsletters for Windstar.
A letter and directory of land groups pertaining to lesbian communes.
A program list for the Yasodhara Ashram Yoga Retreat and Study Center.
Two issues of the social newsletter.
Large packet of information sheets about miscellaneous topics.
Brochure and postcard.
Information leaflets, weekly newsletter, etc.
Employment and educated related pamphlets.
A historical leaflet and a community guide.
Information pack and handbook.
Documents related to communal living; The Collective Experience , which contains articles and poems about communal living.
Letter from Eddy Stylen to Egalitarian Communities about starting up a commune.
Articles and publications pertaining to communal living in India.
Documents related to the organization of the International Communes Network.
Documents relating to communes across the world.
Article on Northern Ireland and a copy of a support letter.
Letter from Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Goldstein to Twin Oaks regarding projects relating to Israel.
Publications of The Kibbutz Journal and related documents.
Lists of publications relating to the Project for Kibbutz Studies.
Four publications of the Literary Digest of the Kibbutz Movement and one subscription letter.
Letters, proposals, and miscellaneous documents pertaining to Kibbutzim and University study of Kibbutzim.
Letters and documents pertaining to Israel and Kibbutz scholarships for Israelis.
Articles on the Kibbutz lifestyle.
Documents related to the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.
Two Youth and Nation publications titled Women in Israel and Jews Right and Left .
Bulletins of Yad-Tabenkin and pamplets with fact sheets.
A large publication titled The Modern Utopian about communes in Japan with two related leaflets.
Publications about the Riverside commune, the Ohu commune, the Wyuna Community, and the Tui Land Trust.
Several copies of Waves , a publication by the commune, as well as documents pertaining to their festivals.
Photographs of the farm.
Miscellaneous brochures for the Findhorn Foundation.
A small and large packet about cellular communication in Nicaragua and South America respectively.
Charts on budget; notes on other councils.
Charts on budget; notes on other councils; meeting notes/agendas.
Meeting notes.
Weekly notes.
Meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Planner informant notes; public meeting notes.
Meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Publication regarding public services and health for the Charlottesville, Albermarle, Fluvanna, Greene, and Nelson Counties.
Resource planning notes; financial planning notes; project requests.
Three-year planning; financial statement.
Opinion and idea papers.
Opinion and idea papers; planners notes; OS (opinion and idea paper by a member on the donation of a sailboat).
Opinion and idea papers; planner's notes; social planning materials packet; letter to former member.
Opinion and idea papers; planners notes.
Opinion and idea papers; planners notes, meeting notes.
Opinion and idea papers with a guide.
Opinion and idea papers.
By-laws; Twin Oaks community policy.
Surveys with member responses to the question "What is a home?"
Timeline of planners; building plan of Twin Oaks.
27 items.
Plans discussing land use and Twin Oaks unit development; sketches illustrating land use; related newspaper article.
22 items.
Plans for Glorious Mud, or the Twin Oaks Construction Company, relating to the construction of new housing.
Notebook; meeting notes; proposals; opinion and idea papers.
Planners Reports; 1975 income tax return; planning proposals; priorities and trade-off game results wherein all members have an opportunity to prioritize funding and plan the Twin Oaks budget for each year.
Planners meeting notes.
Planners Reports; summaries & comments of Economic Plan; balance sheet; securities statement; quota calculations; vacation days and labor exchanges; cuts; planner decisions.
Money budget reports; budgets by Councils.
Area worksheets; six month industry review.
Economic plan for 1981.
Monthly reviews; proposals; opinion and idea papers; economic plan 1982; farm report.
Opinion and idea papers; economic plan 1983; reports.
Three updates of the 1984 Economic Plan Labor and Money Flows with spending projections and totals organized by council.
Background Information for 1984 Managerial Budgeting organized by Council; planwriting worksheets; six-month review decisions; nine-month review decisions; miscellaneous documents.
Monthly money budget report with itemized expenditures and remaining funds; letters; opinion and idea papers; balance sheets.
Monthly money budget report with itemized expenditures and remaining funds; letters; opinion and idea papers; trade-off games; three and six month reviews.
Balance sheets and other financial data; letters; opinion and idea papers; trade-off games; three and six month reviews.
Priority requests; opinion and idea papers; council reports.
Balance sheets; priority plans; three month reviews; financial projections; various economic reports.
Planwriting worksheets; meeting notes; large economic charts for meetings.
Information packets for trade-off games; six month reviews; planwriting worksheets.
Resource proposals; opinion and idea papers; drafted plans; balance sheets; letters; six month reviews.
1986 Econ Plan/Background Information for 1986 Budget Requests.
Priority requests for each council and economic area.
Economic Plan Council Summary Sheets for each council.
Documents pertaining to the 1986 Trade-off Games where all members have an opportunity to prioritize funding and plan the Twin Oaks budget for each year.
Planwriting worksheets; six month priority tabulations; labor plans and answer sheets; meeting notes; opinion and idea papers.
Background information for budget requests; meeting notes; balance sheets; priority presentations; labor reports; letters to, from, and within the planning council.
Mid-year priority requests; trade-off game.
Money requests for each council.
Quarterly economic breakdowns; labor data and requests; labor summary reports; summary sheets.
Plans for conserving spending in the upcoming year; economic projections; opinion and idea papers; planner meeting notes.
Planner forums; meeting notes; planning reports; income analyses.
Economic planning timelines; budget projections and rationales; planwriting sheets; labor data and summaries.
Ongoing budget sheets and answer sheets.
Documents pertaining to the 1988 Trade-off Games where all members have an opportunity to prioritize funding and plan the Twin Oaks budget for each year.
Planwriting worksheets for Agriculture to Domestic Councils.
Planwriting worksheets HEW to Transportation and Maintenance Councils.
Trade-off games.
Priority requests.
Trade-off games.
Priorities; planner meeting notes.
Priorities.
Trade-off Game for 1990; Ongoing 1990; OTRA Index for 1993 Midyear Trade-off Game; 1994 Mid-year Trade-off Game.
Documents pertaining to the Trade-off Game for 1995.
Packets titled The 1995 Ongoing Trade-off Game filled out by Twin Oaks members.
Packets titled The 1996 Ongoing Trade-off Game filled out by Twin Oaks members.
Packets titled OTRA Game 1996 filled out by Twin Oaks members.
Packets titled The 1996 Ongoing Trade-off Game and Playing the Game filled out by Twin Oaks members.
Packets titled OTRA Game 1997 filled out by Twin Oaks members.
Notebook containing "Money " and "Labor " sections.
Notebook containing "Summary, ""Labor, " and "Money " sections.
Notebook containing a "Labor " section.
Notebook with "Farm and Food " and "Income and Non-Income Council " sections.
Notebook labeled "Economic Plan Process ".
General economic plans; balance sheets; monthly breakdowns by council; priorities and allocations.
Notebook with background data and planwriting questionnaires.
Notebook labeled, "Econ Plan- Council Background Data '78, '79, '80, " for Outreach, Planning, Support, and Transportation and Maintenance Councils.
Notebook with priority requests.
Notebook with council background data.
Notebook containing support data.
Notebook with 1980 planwriting worksheets for non-income areas by council.
Notebook labeled Farm Decision.
Notebook labeled "Econ Plan. "
Notebook containing financial and labor reports, community development plans, financial and labor predictions, priorities activity, summaries, three-month reviews, and six-month reviews.
Notebook with the papers, meeting notes, and five-year projections as a part of the 1984 Economic Plan.
Notebook labeled, "1984 Planwriting ".
Notebook with money and labor reports.
Notebook for the Income Council.
Notebook with the papers and meeting notes for the 1985 Economic Plan.
First of three notebooks with the budget priorities for various councils.
Second of three notebooks with the budget priorities for various councils.
Third of three notebooks with the budget priorities for various councils.
Notebook with the three-month review for 1985.
Notebook related for the midyear trade-off game.
Notes, instructions, and policies on personal service credits, or PSCs.
List of workers in various councils.
Trips to other communities such as Geseundheit, Mettanokit, Dandelion, Springtree, and East Wind; information about the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.
Opinion and idea papers and notes on outside hired labor.
Proposals, policies, and notes on labor hole, which concerns meeting labor requirements; planners' meeting notes.
Data and letters about job opportunities.
Labor policies and proposals.
Proposed federation policy on labor exchanges; letters from the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.
Opinion and idea papers about labor.
Twin Oaks labor system principles, policies, and instructions.
Meeting notes on labor sabbatical; surveys; leave of absence option; member opinion, idea paper, and request for various types of leave of absence; discussion notes. OS Leave of absence options included.
Charts and labor data.
Inventories for various aspects of Twin Oaks.
Data and charts with labor statistics. OS Graphs of the data.
Survey; results.
Master copy.
Charts; instruction; surveys/notes.
Juniper Adult/Child Residence; heating comparisons between wood and electric.
Statement of opposition to construction of 640-industrial steel building; meeting notes about 640 building, industry, urban density, and zoning for agriculture, recreation, industry etc.; Merion, Tupelo site, and building plans.
Twin Oaks Community Planning Unit Development Master Plan Proposal to include Twin Oaks in the Louisa County master plan; correspondence from Louis Massaro about the Twin Oaks planning process report and his visit; report on Yossi Amir's visit and a summary of ideas about a comprehensive planning project.
Proposal for Merion cabin to be used as hammock office; maps of Twin Oaks lay-out; notes on proposal to Louisa County to assist with zoning in Louisa; questionnaire of interests and skills in construction; opinion and idea paper on the Tupelo work space.
Report on the financial aspects of selling Merion; news about the sale of Merion and subsequent foreclosure; Hammock Committee proposal to use Merion for hammock office. OS Notes on Merion included.
Meeting notes about canoes, a varnished shed and greenhouse. OS Meeting notes included.
Architectural drawings of Ta Chai, Morningstar, Harmony, Oneida, Tupelo, Degania, Llano.
Meeting notes about many issues including child cabin use; child education and Grande Shuffle; Kitchen Dining Complex, Tupelo work space and Merion cabins; Compost; music practice room; calf yard; woodshop. OS meeting notes included.
Meeting notes about many issues including building plans; food storage; Grand Shuffle; Merion cabin; music room; members taking off time; Ridge Road Right of Way; New Farm Road; children's play area; community space; sewer line; varnish shed; future industrial plan; library needs; space for indexing; Oakynwymyn space proposal; job order form for land surveyor; James H. Bell, Jr.; opinion and idea paper on rezoning areas inside Twin Oaks called "Rezone in the ozone;" varnish facility vote.
Meeting notes on Ridge Road, space for indexing, solar kilns and grain bins; recommendation on cow loafing shed; CLW shelter, construction of cow loafing shed, building site study priority; two spiral notebooks of meeting notes (includes two notebooks)
Opinion and idea papers.
Opinion and idea papers about moving Llano road; meeting notes on land use and space use policy, move Fairs Trailer, placement of phone lines, moving the burn pile and bike shed, and recommendation for the doghouse; notebook of meeting notes.
Opinion and idea papers about moving Llano road; meeting notes on land use and space use policy, move Fairs Trailer, placement of phone lines, moving the burn pile and bike shed, and recommendation for the doghouse; notebook of meeting notes. OS Area map.
Meeting notes and opinion and idea papers.
Meeting notes. Meeting notes approving proposal for patio type deck and storage of chimney brushes in the Bozo Shed; PUD questionnaire; Manager proposal; opinion and idea paper on how land planning functions.
Opinion and idea papers.
Meeting notes and opinion and idea papers; committees will be appointed for the dairy barn site, Courtyard Shuffle, compost location, recreational playfields, relocate video; moving mailboxes to Zhankoye; opinion and idea papers on space use issues, future residences, layout of the buildings and other space and land use ideas, storage solutions, site of the pig pen, piano for Zhankoye basement, beer making and other activities in Zhankoye; planners recommendations.
Meeting notes and opinion and idea papers on Llano remodeling; meeting notes on design team and office plans; correspondence about planning process.
Budget; plans; survey results; priority request.
Meeting notes on basketball court and soccer field; proposals.
Progress papers on the visitor center; meeting notes; Visitor Cottage Weekly Review.
Meeting notes and opinion and idea papers; list of general recommendations for storage, and smokers space; meeting notes on storage space and usage for the former Dairy Barn, Zhankoye Playground Siting; 'Old' Dairy Barn Survey for possible uses; remodel outline for new products office; possible uses for the former Chimney Shop; planners recommendations for the former Chimney Shop; storage shed proposal; request to move playing records; request for more space for the Child-Adult residence; land planning policy and manager proposal; building project surveys; request for a new software office; new painting for tool wagon and chair trailer. OS Member comments/opinions.
Opinion and idea papers on the process of planning a residence, Nashoba; meeting notes from the Planner's Forum on a new residence.
Opinion and idea papers about removal of old green house and freezer shed, remodeling of the hammocks shop, making a hammock garden; meeting notes on the rope machine area upgrade.
Opinion and idea paper about long term building planning; opinion and idea paper requesting space for nudity behind Llano; opinion and idea paper about the space at Tupelo; opinion and idea paper in favor of a smaller residence building; opinion and idea paper supporting a lounge in Zhankoye; request to remove license plates from the Fairs Shed.
Room Crunch Member Surveys; request for a tree house.
Product Liability Insurance for hammocks; bylaws and Articles of Incorporation; proposal to change by-laws to allow longer terms for planners; separation agreement for a husband and wife who are members; child membership proposal as a means to reduce taxes; annual corporate registration with the State Corporation Commission.
Revision of by-laws; meeting notes.
A member of Twin Oaks is accused of stealing jewelry from a Charlottesville Jeweler, George Moody; a member has stolen money from Twin Oaks and there is discussion about how to obtain repayment from the member and whether or not to press charges; a legal contract for a member of Twin Oaks who owes Twin Oaks for medical school loans.
Twin Oaks tax policies.
Discussion and feedback regarding new or returning membership applicants.
Meeting to consider ways of recruiting more women.
Opinion and idea papers informing other members about specific guests; letters from guests requesting to stay longer; reminders of policies for having guests.
Behavioral guidelines; information on holidays; copy of membership agreement; map of Twin Oaks.
Membership and guest policies; opinion and idea paper on waiting period for new members; membership application; legal appeal system after rejection; policy for re-accepting ex-members.
Membership survey; opinion and idea papers; notes about feedback from children on new members.
Opinion and idea paper on associate status; paper from a member requesting associate status; discussion of policies on associate status.
Policies; dual membership agreement form; papers on dual membership.
Opinion and idea papers about members on residency status; policies on residency status.
Opinion and idea papers about members leaving; proposals for facilitating the leaving process; information about loans for leaving; opinion and idea papers about car privileges and ownership.
Opinion and idea papers and proposals on turn over and rewarding long term members. OS Bulletin about Exodus, a meeting wherein members discuss the departure of many prominent Twin Oaks members.
Proposal analysis; surveys forms used in the planning process.
Goals and value evaluation sheets.
Resource guide to help members live by the goals that were articulated in the planning process.
Three year plans for social interaction, new member orientation and integration, equality of the genders, sex ratio, cleanliness and house, skills, domestic agriculture, regionalism objectives and goals; Evaluation phase; Newsletter on Communication from the Federation of Egalitarian Communities; Comprehensive Planning Project; objectives survey; Values survey.
Members describe ways in which they would like to see Twin Oaks reflect their goals and values; notes on fantasies about dining, health and safety, population, housing and many aspects of their living at Twin Oaks; list of goals and values and negative relationships; ideas about the labor credit system; guidelines for accepting children.
Minutes of the DAS group; information about a workshop; meetings about low morale; copy of a membership agreement; opinion and idea paper about the Tupelo living situation; meeting notes about concerns relating to personal spending, social behaviors that create anger, the hammock shop budget, and reevaluating Juniper's branch government; linkage groups. OS List of goals.
Proposal by a study committee for small groups living together; meeting notes from five individuals who develop a social planning proposal for small group living using a matrix system or survey from members about their goals and values; notes on goal grouping (oversize).
Social planning materials packet; opinion and idea papers about small group living; proposals for small living space; interviews on space use at New Tupelo. OS Matrices.
List of general activities; proposals for small group spaces; priorities shopping list; notes on values list; interview on space use at new tupelo; small group surveys; opinion and idea papers on values; information on linkage groupings; diagrams; meeting minutes; goals; non-credit activities; goal groupings.
Notes on options that the planners didn't choose; notes on food and dining; notes on minority living space proposals; sample questionnaire to find out what members want in their residence; notes about the privileges for visitors; notes for survey questions; Report on Yossi Amir's Visit and a Summary of Ideas about a Comprehensive Planning Project.
Taylor's notes for decisions made on social planning.
Summary of getting started; Publication "Social Planning, A Small Group Problem; " opinion and idea paper on the subject of design preference values survey; opinion and idea paper on small groups; book report on "The Oregon Experiment; " information on a comprehensive planning project.
Social planning proposal; social planning meeting notes; notes and designs from the small group study committee; summary of public process section; notes on definition process; history of the process. OS Step-by-step plans and notes.
List of tools and surveys used in the planning process.
Reference sheet for methods; values and goal matrices. OS Matrices.
Methods summary; miscellaneous method analyses; method analysis of child care; method analysis for decision making and labor; method analysis for membership and visitors; reference sheets for methods; methods for activities exercise. OS Papers on social methods.
Social Planning proposal; notes for survey questions.
Surveys on small living group rights and responsibilities; living space questions; new tupelo questionnaire; Small group and child directions survey.
Small group and child directions survey.
Small group and child directions survey.
Growth re-visioning surveys completed by members.
Growth re-visioning surveys completed by members.
Request to move communications center; request for more considerate responses on the opinion and idea space and 3 x 5 boards; discussion of norms for using the opinion and idea space; opinion and idea papers about norms and the bluster board.
Flooglehorn , the community newsletter which gives updates and schedules of events.
List of councils; planner notes; priority request for an archivist position and office space; archives budget worksheet; plan-writing worksheet; list of planner decisions; proposal to eliminate the Support Council due to the lack of common interests between councils; laminated miscellaneous signs [for notebooks].
List of opinion and idea papers organized by year; report showing the number of opinion and idea papers written by members; summary of outstanding opinion and idea papers; idea of a ghost writer for members who don't like to write opinion and idea papers.
A history of the 'process' of communicating and implementing policy; Opinion and idea papers on 'process' and the Process Team; guidelines for membership feedback; sign up sheet for facilitation training; dialog meeting notes; Planner's meeting notes; Conflicts with the Visitor Managers, members, and the Process Team; letters to the process team; Process Team reports and job descriptions.
Holiday menus, invitations; schedule, notes, reunion weekend brochure; anniversaries; discussion about celebrating Thanksgiving; Summer, Fall and Winter Solstices; Budget Planwriting worksheet.
Fine policy, budget worksheet; design for a newspaper magazine rack; survey; information about newspaper subscriptions.
Membership proposal for escrow account; member letter on war registers league; flyer for meeting.
Information on members volunteering at the Freedom House, a homeless shelter in Richmond; list of volunteers; thank you notes from Freedom House.
"Prayers of the Fascists " by Roque Dalton Garcia; request for labor credits for activism; proposal for bumper stickers; information about Peace Walk, World Peace March, and Solidarity Rally; information about hurricane aid; letters to the editor; thank you letters; discussion about individual vs. community support for politics; periodical subscriptions; endorsement of political candidates; conference on feminism; opinion and idea papers and meeting notes on Uranium mining.
Budget plan-writing worksheet; Opinion and idea papers on movement support and politics; Louisa County Senior Center; Habitat for Humanity Walk; news clipping about the Charlottesville Peace Center; news clipping about the Adopt a Highway program; an article titled, "Peace and the World Economy " by [Rosurthian;] list of donations to organizations and various causes.
History of nuclear wastes at North Anna; letters by members; letter from the NZ government about their anti-nuclear policies; clippings on North Anna; member proposal for a nuclear free zone; meeting notes of planner's forum; planner notes/discussion notes on proposal; printed letter from President Ronald Reagan to Twin Oaks.
Refugee report; newsletters from Central American Refugee Center; correspondence with Overground Railroad, Reba Place Church, First Unitarian Church of Richmond, Charlottesville Refugee Assistance Friends Meeting House, and Proyecto Libertad about refugees; proposals to host legal refugees; meeting notes; information about loans from the Unitarian Universalist fellowship.
Information on provisional legal refugees (PLR); request forms for asylum in the US; Information on Jesus and Adela, refugees they hosted in the community temporarily; copy of immigration bond records; invoice for hospital check up; floppy disk.
Identification of specific recreational uses of land; discussion about noise in the courtyard; proposal for Mardi Gras; invitations to dances, parties; dance policies; proposal for events; talent show program, spring play programs; communal use of raft; volleyball; basketball; hiking, camping, canoeing; choral group; drama circle; spiritual places; information on a tape recorder; film projector; information on computer sharing, and dark room for photography; Four point game; trips. OS Flyers for events.
List of recordings; information about a CD player in the Hammock shop; opinion and idea paper on donating records in Llano to the Goodwill; songs, concert announcements; information about music collections; programs, reviews on music performances; opinion and idea paper about theater; play programs; letter and notes on plays and performances.
Flyers for birthday and special occasion parties.
Video reviews; request for videos; notes about movie discussion; Opinion and idea paper; meeting agenda on video violence; record of videos shown; video budget worksheet; notes on video games.
Proposal, discussion notes on dumpsters and dump runners; opinion and idea papers on metal resources.
Opinion and idea paper about groups of five; guidelines and notes about selection of groupings; list of groups.
Notes and opinion and idea paper on Twin Oak newsletter, Weeds & Knots ; meeting notes; records.
Policy for borrowing tools; report to the Planners about a conflict between members of the auto team; The AutoMaint Inquirer; The Autohead Enquirer; Vehicle Maintenance Report; proposal for upgrade and repairs on vehicles; Planwriting worksheet; opinion and idea papers about hurtful comments, a new member, new van, investment of body work, new Toyota, and job openings; opinion and idea paper on manual or auto transmission; Planwriting worksheet; guidelines on vehicle use.
Community bike policy and availability of bikes; planwriting worksheet; request for cart.
Opinion and idea paper on moving Llano road, speed bumps and snow removal.
Opinion and idea papers proposing reimbursement for mileage, hiring a ride service, and buying a small car; recommendations for long trips.
Use of personal cars and community regulations; vehicle ownership meeting; opinion and idea papers on vehicle ownership.
Mileage and cost charge and other vehicle usage policies; proposal to eliminate chargebacks; proposal to revise vehicle use rates; opinion and idea papers about increasing the number of vehicles; request to keep trailer at Modern Times temporarily; opinion and idea paper about car accidents and safety; discussion notes on changing the by-laws to include personal cars for members.
Opinion and idea papers, priority request; proposals to implement AC in the community; meeting notes.
Letters and papers involving a conflict between members concerning continued use of the current Dairy Barn or building a new barn; description of a new dairy barn; Dairy Plan Committee notes to the Planners; New Dairy Facilities Proposal; overview of the Dairy Barn decision process.
Planner Forum meeting notes; analysis of the Dairy Barn decision process and an opinion and idea paper on an appeal process.
Decision is made by Planners to discontinue farming due to high turnover in membership at Twin Oaks and difficult conditions for farming to be profitable; opinion and idea papers about the decision. OS Notes on controversial farming.
Invitation for men's nurturance night; letter to planners requesting that they consider more women for managerial roles; debates about excluding men from a showing of a Lesbian erotica film, censorship of songs with offensive lyrics to women, gender only parties; Opinion and idea papers on gender and work assignments, on egalitarian consciousness and work; an article titled "Girl Talk, " by John Pfeiffer. OS Paper on male visitors.
Opinion and idea papers on Female Culture Dominance at Twin Oaks Community by Zena Goldenberg, Revolution, How Do Men Fit into Feminist Culture, and a paper on Values and Choices by the process team.
Letters between members who are in conflict with each other, opinion and idea paper that shows concern that the community is separating.
Opinion and idea papers on many aspects of living at Twin Oaks, quotas for hammock production, values and idealism; responses to other members; notes on members spanking children; pet peeves about language and space issues. OS Paper about norms at Twin Oaks by Novagene.
Opinion and idea papers on earning quotas in one area while competence for another area is unused, leadership, understanding change in community, and a debate about boycotting business with certain companies for political reasons; Report of a meeting about members violating an agreement involving television viewing.
Opinion and idea papers on noise at late-night parties at the Llano Building, hammock shop, and loud-music.
Request by a Twin Oaks teenager to invite a guest to the New Year's Eve party but it is refused due to a consensus of the members desiring to have nudity; opinion and idea papers about the request and the issue of nudity in the community; pledge sheet agreeing to protocol regarding nudity; discussion about the rights of children at Twin Oaks.
Discussion about sending children to public schools where they will be influenced by mainstream values or educating them in the community where conflicts about nudity will be less likely to occur; opinion and idea papers about nudity policy, and appeals to change the policy.
Meeting notes, procedures and opinion and idea papers on smoking in the community.
Vandalism on property at Twin Oaks; news clipping about a robbery by a Twin Oaks member; opinion and idea papers on building construction, and about a lost wallet; apology letter from a former member with a habit of stealing; vandalism of fuel system, and other acts of vandalism; letter by a member about pursuing life as an activist outside of Twin Oaks.
Correspondence between members.
Opinion and idea papers; correspondence between members.
Academians request literature and visits to Twin Oaks; letter of request for information about Twin Oaks; academic contacts questionnaire; invoices; directory of Utopian scholars.
Ingrid (Ma-Bear) proposes writing a book about Twin Oaks; tentative outline, book agreement; correspondence of Twin Oaks concerning the content/progress of the book; correspondence of Twin Oaks over a dispute of the preface written for the paperback; information about Ingrid's son. OS Correspondence regarding "Living the Dream. "
Correspondence of media/publisher concerning using Twin Oaks in books/articles; letter from Chuck Farrier thanking Twin Oaks for allowing him to write a book.
Pencil sketch; drawings.
Bibliography for many subjects such as sociology, education, history, feminism, economics, children and management; suggestions for readings in leadership, power and equality.
Dance sign up sheet; short stories and poems by children.
Men's group meeting information; sign language classes; counseling classes.
Invitations; agenda for international convention of knee injury survivors; request for hammock prices; opinion & idea paper on wanting to live at Twin Oaks; information about life outside the community.
Invitations and thank you notes for weddings.
Menus for meals on special occasions. OS Menus.
Ideas for names of buildings and cars.
Listing of birds and wildlife seen at Twin Oaks; information on a total eclipse; hiking trip; flower viewing.
Spring 87 issue of Acorn (a newsletter about arts at Twin Oaks) and notes.
Opinion and idea (I like it) papers where members make notes about their favorite things at Twin Oaks. OS Magazine articles including Town & Country .
OS News clippings.
Proposal to purchase spiritual books and materials; information on new metaphysical books; information on meditation.
Surveys on bathroom; survey on 1 day plague; survey on how many members are left-handed; survey on how members like their eggs.
Correspondence from editors of women's newsletters; Twin Oaks correspondents requesting advertising for women interested in alternative lifestyles; application for change in space use for Oneida to become a women's space; notes from a meeting about sexism; updated memo about small living groups; opinion and idea papers on Wimmin Power, From the Womyn's Group to You, Men's space, 'Wolfing,' 'Word Awareness,' Egalitarian Consciousness and Work.
Opinion and idea papers on Values and Choices; request for Oneida to become a women's space; a paper about "Living In Community; " women's meeting notes; news clipping; advertisement for Oakyn-wymny; planning on a community center relocation; articles about being Lesbian.
Essay about thinking of work in terms of creativity; flyer requesting help for 70 hour work weeks; proposal for a day-off; request support for a member who struggles with reaching enough hours to meet quota; once a week event with various special events notes, menu, discussion notes on Community Day.
Poems and songs written by members; Political Science paper by A. Allen Butcher, titled "Democracy and Capitalism; " 'group story' where each reader adds more narrative to the story. OS Writing titled, "A story for the completing. "