Part I: Growing up with a father on the run
Lifestyle embodied the drug-fuelled freedom dance of the ‘60s. He travelled along the California coast, where his father built a hippie commune in the redwoods and became a wanted man after plotting to blow up a lumber company’s model home. This is the story of a generation which is just now coming to terms with the dark side of their peace-and-love upbringing. n a sultry August night in 1969 when the Healdsburg police pulled over Paul Kuitenbrouwer for a routine check about 60 miles north of San Francisco, where California Highway 101 winds through the lush vineyards of Sonoma County, only my father knew how much trouble he was in. Woodstock was still a week away, but my father’s Sixties, the era of peace and love and hippies and flower children, a movement centred here on America’s north Pacific coast — and in which he styled himself a pivotal player — were about to come to a very dark end.Among my father’s troubles: He was wanted by police in British Columbia, having jumped bail on narcotics possession charges, and in California, on charges of possession of an explosive device “with intent to willfully and maliciously use such material.” Posters bearing his mug shot hung in post offices up and down the California coast. Two young women, neither of them his wife, carried his unborn children. He was travelling with a forged driver’s licence. And the trunk was full of marijuana.
When the troopers shined their flashlights into the front and back seats of the sprawling white Ford Galaxie my father drove, they saw six children. Three were his. The eldest, my sister, was 10 years old. I was seven. We had just gotten aboard the car, after my mother put us on a flight in Vancouver to San Francisco, to go spend a summer vacation with our dad. He had not told her that he was a wanted man.
“I thought the best way to hide from the cops would just be to go on holiday with my kids,” my father says.
This is an adventure story best viewed through a kaleidoscope, while high on hash brownies and listening to Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow.
The setting is the coast, from Vancouver to Mexico. The time: the late Sixties. The main character, Paul Kuitenbrouwer (whom Mendocino locals still refer to, with affection, as “the crazy Dutchman”), who crossed paths with the noteworthy, including Bill Deverell, his lawyer in Vancouver, later to become a best-selling crime novelist, and Lowell Bergman, the journalist who was my father’s roommate and friend in San Diego, later immortalized by Al Pacino in The Insider.
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Front corner. Their service as a foundation was indispensable as it took years to afford a concrete foundation. However the real blessing of the old stumps are the shakes. Few building exercises are as rewarding as the ancient art of splitting shakes from a bolt of cedar by hand.
There was no working plan for siding the house at the start. It wasn’t ‘til the first notches were cut that were to receive the girders that there was any notion of usable wood left.
You can’t imagine my joy, pots of gold all around me, a hundred cedar stumps! Shakes galore. The reality was somewhat different but still Providential. The first episode went really smooth but only in my ignorance. In two weeks I had accumulated a huge stockpile of shakes.
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It had been several months by now since I began falling trees, milling lumber, and framing the cabin. I got my first visitor. Quite shocked an’ not really understanding what business the old man had to come visiting, I was just a little put out when he asked what I was doing as if it wasn’t obvious!
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