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Easter at Wheeler Ranch, 1970 (photo by Sylvia Clarke Hamilton)

1970
Alicia Bay Laurel hitch-hicked from Berkeley to Sausalito to show Yanko her new book, hot off the presses, "Living On Earth." Varda was leaving for a trip to Mexico the next day, where he died unexpectedly. Alicia was the last friend in America to see him alive.


She had met Varda in 1967 when she was 18 years old and moved to Sausalito. She lived in the Waterfront community at Gate 5 until 1968. She posts a diary on her website and has written about Jean Varda and the Vallejo.

Originally published by The Bookworks in Berkeley. You can still order it here
SS Vallejo 36 Varda Landing Sausalito, CA 94965 info@vallejo.to