Lavender Hill A Love Story

In 1973 a motley group of young writers artists political activists and recent college graduates purchased over 80 acres of land outside West Danby New York to build with their own hands a two story home that became Lavender Hill one of the few gay and lesbian communes in the Back to the Land movement In a time when over a dozen straight communes thrived in Tompkins County outside Ithaca Lavender Hill which expanded to include several homes across the property was a remarkable experiment in collaboration gender exploration and social and political integration between young gay and lesbians in the postStonewall era