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This show is hosted by renowned Dunite historian and author, Norm Hammond. The Dunites were people who lived in the sand dunes south of Oceano from around the time of the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1895 until 1974, when the last Dunite living in the Dunes passed away. Among the Dunites were artists, writers, poets, and philosophers, and others who enjoyed a free and easy life style with excellent climate, no rent and no taxes. Some Dunites were associated with the Utopian Colony of “Moy Mell” which was created by Chester Alan Arthur III, grandson of U.S. President Chester Alan Arthur and was located in the dunes about two miles south of Oceano. Others were religious mystics who preferred to live alone as hermits, apart from the festivities and social atmosphere of Moy Mell. One of these hermit mystics was Elwood Decker who first came into the dunes in 1931.