Luke Skywalker Goes Home

July, 1997

Luke Skywalker Goes HomeJust Beyond the fog-shrouded wooden gates, a guard whose arm patch says Skywalker Fire Brigade waves the visitor inside. Within moments, the road opens to Skywalker Ranch--3000 mostly pristine acres of rolling hills in the appropriately named Lucas Valley. There are mountain lions and bobcats in the hills. Cattle roam the meadows. Down a silent winding road, the visitor sees, in the distance, a grandiose Victorian mansion that was designed by George Lucas to serve not onl...