Thursday, April 24, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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Band
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periodically stays on the farm
periodically stays on the firth. The group shunned publicity for 15 years but has stepped back into the limelight to promote its magazine, William Tuttle, professor of history, said yesterday.
Tuttle said Dick Russel, a former KU student and a member of the group, suggested last fall that some members speak to one of Tuttle's classes about life in the U.S., hearing them speak. The tale said, "Dick Russel, a former KU student and a member of the group, suggested last fall that some members speak to one of Tuttle's classes about life in the U.S., hearing them speak."
reason he he gave Tuttle said he had been invited to the farm and was looking forward to visiting soon.
group's communal setup.
Russia was a student of Tuttle's and stayed in touch with his pro-
fessor after he graduated in 1969.
Mel Lyman, a member of the
Kweiskin hand, brought the extended family together and was thought to have had great control over its members. After a Rolling Stone article compared the group to the Charles Manson family, the group became very private, shunning any public attention.
Lyman, Jessie Benton Lyman's husband, died several years ago.
"Mel Lyman was a musician and the center of the group," Turner said. "We were all friends of him and that's how we got together. But he's longer with us and the issue really relevant to what we're doing now."
Bill Van Keppel, of Kansas City, Mo., said he had grown up with Jessie Benton Lyman and had known the group as long as it had been together. Many of them were univer-
city students who had met in 1966 in Boston where they began renovating houses, playing music and publishing an underground newspaper called Avatar. Avatar was discontinued in 1969.
1969. Van Keppel said that he had never met Mel Lyman and that the group didn't often talk about him.
don't often talk about it." If there is a mystery then that's probably it," Van Keppel said.
But the group also is a puzzle to many people who can't understand how so many people live together in an orderly, traditional lifestyle, Van Keppel said.
"How dare who don't know anything about them will think that they're a bunch of druggies whose kids roll around in the mud," Van Keppel said. "But that's not true at all. They really are like a family each other."
The philosophy can be found in their magazine, Van Kepel said. They believe in treating each other with respect, encouraging each other's creativity, and, generally leading a clean, wholesome life.
They're very fine, gentle people, who have put together a philosophy that has lasted the test of time."
van Keppel said he had visited the group at the Kansas farm and at their homes in Los Angeles, Boston and Martha's Vineyard. Mass.
He said the family had more than 30 children ranging from 5 to 18 years old. Everybody has his or her work, he said. The women cook and of the men do the hard labor, and the men have their individual chores.
chores.
The group is not religiously oriented, Turner said. Being together
for 20 years, sharing a closeness and concern for each other has brought about many common interests.
about many artists.
"Some of us farm, some of us are artists, musicians, photographers and so on," he said.
Frequent relocation is one of the interesting aspects of the group, Tuttle said. The family owns a construction company in California. The company is their main source of income and allows them to live comfortably.
"By now the group owns millions of dollars worth of real estate, not to mention all the other things they have created." Van Keppel said.
Greenwood said, "The big difference today is that when we built our first house in Kansas in 1791 we had to tear the rocks out of the hill with our hands. Now we can afford to use modern equipment."
On Campus
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Two free films, "Ethnic Dance: Roundtrip to Trinidad" and "Helen Tamiris in Negro Spiritual," will be shown at 4 p.m. today in 252 Robinson Center. The film is part of the dance history film series.
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Auditions for
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Saturday & Sunday, April 26 & 27, 1986
Murphy Hall
1986 Summer Season includes:
The Golden Fleece by A. R. Gurney
The Harmfulness of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov
The 1940's Radio Hour by Walton Jones
Acting Company Auditions:
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Radio Hour: July 11-13 & 18-19
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