In 1857, Abigail and Barnabus Haskell arrived in Petaluma pursuing a California dream of free love. It wasn’t quite the promiscuous Summer of Love that would inflame the Golden State a century later, ...

A topless woman is taken from behind, steadying herself against a hay wagon, as if the couple had paused mid-task. Her late-19th-century garb is half undone, but her sun hat unperturbed. This scene — ...

For much of the 19 th century, “free love” advocates and other sexual radicals battled with what was known as the “social purity” movement over sex and the nature of the family. Between 1852 to 1890, ...

Abigail Haskell was a spiritual rebel, reformer and feminist. In 1857, Abigail and Barnabus Haskell arrived in Petaluma pursuing a California dream of free love. It wasn’t quite the promiscuous Summer ...