[1] Morningstar was part of the changing society of young adults in the 1960s that traveled back and forth between San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Sebastopol.
[2] Co-founder Louis Gottlieb coined the acronym LATWIDNO (Land Access To Which Is Denied No One) to refer to the ranch and other similar communal-living experiments.
"[3] The ranch existed in this form for a short time (1967-1972) but was a regular gathering-place for many of those traveling through the Haight.
[7] "Morningstar" lives on as the name of one of the residences at Twin Oaks Community, a contemporary commune of 100 members in Virginia.
T. C. Boyle's 2003 novel Drop City tells the fictional account of a commune with many qualities in common with Morningstar.