Professor Dona Brown, author of Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America, lends her insight to articles honoring Isabelle Fiske-Calhoun, one of the founders of the oldest commune in Vermont, as well as to a modern-day attempt to form an independent community. Brown describes the idea behind places like Fiske-Calhoun’s Quarry Hill commune, “a place where they could be free and where they wouldn’t be subjected to a lot of pressure.” Read the New York Times story… and the AP story on Salon...

 

PUBLISHED

05-15-2014
University Communications