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Because of its distance from New York, Fairfield County is chiefly reserved for well-to-do commuters. So thousands of successful New Yorkers, attracted by the rolling hills, the …

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When LIFE magazine visited Big Sur in 1959, the Esalen Institute was three years from opening, but the coastal community had long been attracting free-thinking types. LIFE’s story was …

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