OPINION | OLD NEWS: Wife of 1920's 'most original' American not OK with free-love farm

In late 1920, Charles "Barley" Garland, 21-year-old son of New England blue bloods with a dependent wife and baby, made national headlines by rejecting an inheritance. He waved away $1 million from his dead father's estate.

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