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- Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University Press of New England
summary
Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of rural Vermont, spawning a revolution in lifestyle, politics, sexuality, and business practices that would have a profound impact on both the state and the nation. The movement brought hippies, back-to-the-landers, political radicals, sexual libertines, and utopians to a previously conservative state and led us to today’s farm to table way of life, environmental consciousness, and progressive politics as championed by Bernie Sanders.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- 1 | The Hippie Invasion
- pp. 13-32
- 2 | Life on the Commune
- pp. 33-84
- 3 | Higher Education
- pp. 85-102
- 4 | Food . . . and Revolution
- pp. 103-123
- 5 | Entrepreneurship—Hippie-Style
- pp. 124-144
- 6 | Political Transformation
- pp. 145-161
- 7 | Creativity
- pp. 162-191
- 9 | Women’s Work Reimagined
- pp. 201-231
- 10 | The Children of the Counterculture
- pp. 232-243
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 247-248
- Appendix | Soundtrack
- pp. 249-252
- Sources and Resources
- pp. 253-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9781512602838
Related ISBN(s)
9781512600315
MARC Record
OCLC
1029352699
Pages
276
Launched on MUSE
2018-04-29
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018