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...certainly there forty years ago, and some of it must be there still--big barracks-like buildings, perhaps, huge rotting printing presses, a dining hall, land where you can still see the marks of a plow. Newllano used to be the home of a commune called the Llano Cooperative Colony, where former Wobblies and the like from all over the country gathered in some numbers. They lived, farmed, published books and a weekly newspaper, and for a number of years staved of off foreclosure. I don't know what became of the colony; I only know that for a time...
...first glance, it looks like a movie set for Walden Two. There is a shop building called Harmony, a farmhouse called Llano, and a dormitory called Oneida. Bulletin boards list upcoming cultural events, and young people lounge on hammocks, reading and engaging in serious discussions. The smell of farm-fresh cooking is everywhere. The resemblance to Walden Two is more than superficial. Twin Oaks, a 123-acre farm commune nestled in the foothills of Virginia's Piedmont, is a remarkable attempt to create a Utopian community governed by Skinner's laws of social engineering...
...utter foolishness, nothing quite matches the practical joke that backfired tragically on a 25-year-old Dallas lad last month. While waiting for his three hunting companions to return to their campsite near Llano, Texas, he got a sudden inspiration. He hid in a clump of heavy brush along the trail leading to the camp; when his friends drew alongside, he made snarling noises and shook the bushes violently. The charade worked perfectly. Convinced that they were about to be attacked by a mountain lion, the three hunters opened fire, and killed him on the spot...
...Judge is also at home on water. Once Lyndon developed a craving for a cruise up the narrow, treacherous Llano River on a winter night so pitch-dark that Moursund stepped right off the end of the pier into hip-deep water. Yet A. W. took the wheel of the cruiser, while Lyndon unconcernedly ate shrimp in the cabin below. Said Johnson: "He'll get us there. I wouldn't trust anybody else...
...ranches, now part of the Johnson trust, are jointly owned by Johnson and Moursund. Acquired in 1961 and 1962, they are the 2,186-acre Three Springs Ranch along the Pedernales in Blanco County and the 4,500-acre Haywood Ranch in the lake region of nearby Llano County. They consist chiefly of pastureland on which cattle, sheep and Angora goats thrive. Moursund explains his interest in such land acquisition with typical understatement. Says he: "The more little places you have, the better...