[5] They decided upon Von Geldern Cove (also known as Joe's Bay) as the site for their new Home Colony, which would be an intentional community based on anarchist philosophy.

One such figure was Gertie Vose, who once lived in Portland and contributed to The Firebrand (alongside other notable anarchists like Jay Fox and Emma Goldman).

He was said to be a shy, lonely kid and Gertie thought a move to the anarchist friendly area would improve his social skills and make him more comfortable with her beliefs.

Gertie quickly established her place in this community by contributing to one of Home's newspapers, The Discontent, and by organizing meetings and entertaining visitors.

Inflammatory articles led to threats being made by a vigilante committee called the Loyal League formed by members of the Grand Army of the Republic, who planned to invade the colony by steamboat and "put it to the torch."

[10] In 1902, after charges of violation of the Comstock Act resulting from an article advocating free-love published in the local anarchist newspaper Discontent: Mother of Progress, Home's post office was closed by postal inspectors and moved two miles (3.2 km) to the smaller town of Lakebay.

[11] Emma Goldman was also a radical ideologue who studied the works of people like Walt Whitman and thus disseminated the idea of "sexual intermediacy".

[12] Waisbrooker and Goldman and other women like them exemplified feminist ideology that fit into the larger anarchist canon that had developed in 20th century America.

The Agitator ran stories that dealt with things like the Hay Market riot in Chicago and other instances of injustice against the anarchist movement.

The "nudes and prudes" debate made it clear that the colony was not living in a cohesive utopia, but rather a complicated collection of similar people who could not fully reconcile their differing interpretations of anarchism.