Crumb, Kim Deitch and Art Spiegelman. In 1978 Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, and a number of Quarry Hill residents created Top-Drawer Rubber Stamp Company, a pictorial rubber stamp company featuring art by Crumb, Spiegelman, and many other cartoonists and artists, including Barbara Fiske. This art rubber stamp company provided employment for several Quarry Hill residents. Spiegelman and others drew a parallel between Irving Fiske and Crumb's mischievous "Guru", Mr. Natural. Irving Fiske died of a stroke on April 25, 1990, in Ocala Florida. Barbara Fiske continued to live and teach art at Quarry Hill into her 90s, eventually moving to a nursing home in White River Junction, Vermont, where she died after several days of being read poetry by her daughter and son-in-law, and by moments of Quaker silence, as Barbara became a member of the Society of Friends in 1982, in Middlebury Vermont. References Notes Sources Drysdale, M. Dickey "Rochester Renaissance," Vermont Life magazine (Spring 1998). Fiske, Irving. "Letters to the Editor: Not a 'Hippy'," Ocala Star-Banner (May 25, 1971). Fiske, Ladybelle (with photography by William Fiske). "Al Stirt, Bowlmaker," Vermont Life (Winter 1978) Hemingway, Sam. "Leaderless Commune Seeks Peace," The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press (May 6, 1990). McFarlin, Isabella Fiske, et al., "Free The Kids! and Quarry Hill Community," The Journal of Psychohistory, 21/1, 21-28. Miller, Timothy. The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999, p. 8 Miller, Timothy. "Total Freedom", CESNUR International Conference: "Minority Religions, Social Change, and Freedom of Conscience" (Salt Lake City and Provo (Utah), June 20–23, 2002). Sherman, Michael, Gene Sessions, and P. Jeffrey Potash. Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont (Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Historical Society, 2003) — Sherman, a respected historian and teacher at Vermont College, credits Quarry Hill and The North Hollow School with being a model for the many alternative schools that sprang up in Vermont in the 1970s and onward. Spiegelman, Art: MAUS (Pantheon, 1986–1992) — Spiegelman and Mouly's "friends in Vermont" are the Fiske family and other Quarry Hill residents. "Isabella," in the "Prisoner on the Hell Planet" chapter, is Isabella Fiske (McFarlin), Art Spiegelman's girlfriend at the time of his mental breakdown and his mother's suicide. Spiegelman, Art: "METAMAUS," (Pantheon, 2013)-- " "My hippie girlfriend's father, Irving Fiske, the Mr. Natural of the commune I was involved with." pp 24–25 "Fiske Family Women Honored," The Herald of Randolph (Feb. 21, 2002). Vermont Magazine (May/June