Robert McGuiness
Robert Gary McGuiness was born in Bay Shore, New York, on February 8, 1954. He graduated from Smithtown Central High School in 1972. After school he travelled west to Arizona and eventually to California, where he has lived since 1976. He was an active part of the “back to land” movement and homesteaded off the grid in Northern California. He has two children, three wonderful grandchildren and a dog named Marbles.