“I’m going to build where no one can bother me” he said after the government seized his land to build Fort Wetherill. And up went Clingstone a few hundred yards away.

NY Times once said the house was ‘legendary for its parties’ in the 1970’s & the second owner’s sister said Clingstone was ‘no place for a woman’.

“I fear that my two [ex] wives knew [Clingstone] was my true love” the late owner wrote in an update for his 50 year college reunion.

I hope someone who partied here in the 70’s finds this post.

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