Naked in the woods : my unexpected years in a hippie commune /

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Author / Creator:	Grundstein, Margaret, author.
Imprint:	Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	212 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Grundstein, Margaret. Grundstein, Margaret. Hippies -- United States -- Biography. Communal living -- Oregon -- Biography. Country life -- Oregon -- Anecdotes. Women -- United States -- Biography. Hippies -- Oregon -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Hippies -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes. Poverty -- United States -- Psychological aspects. Baby boom generation -- United States -- Biography. Young adults -- United States -- Attitudes -- 20th century. Baby boom generation. Communal living. Country life. Hippies. Poverty -- Psychological aspects. Social conditions. Women. Young adults -- Attitudes. United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980 -- Anecdotes. Oregon -- Biography. Oregon. United States. Anecdotes. Autobiographies. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10299733

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Varying Form of Title:	My unexpected years in a hippie commune
ISBN:	9780870718076 087071807X 9780870718083
Summary:	"In 1970, Margaret Grundstein abandoned her graduate degree at Yale and followed her husband, an Indonesian prince and community activist, to a commune in the backwoods of Oregon. Together with ten friends and an ever-changing mix of strangers, they began to build their vision of utopia. Naked in the Woods chronicles Grundstein's shift from reluctant hippie to committed utopian--sacrificing phones, electricity, and running water to live on 160 acres of remote forest with nothing but a drafty cabin and each other. Grundstein, (whose husband left, seduced by "freer love") faced tough choices. Could she make it as a single woman in man's country? Did she still want to? How committed was she to her new life? Although she reveled in the shared transcendence of communal life deep in the natural world, disillusionment slowly eroded the dream. Brotherhood frayed when food became scarce. Rifts formed over land ownership. Dogma and reality clashed. Many people, baby boomers and millennials alike, have romantic notions about the 1960s and 70s. Grundstein's vivid account offers an unflinching, authentic portrait of this iconic and often misreported time in American history. Accompanied by a collection of distinctive photographs she took at the time, Naked in the Woods draws readers into a period of convulsive social change and raises timeless questions: how far must we venture to find the meaning we seek, and is it ever far out enough to escape our ingrained human nature?"--

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Part I. New Haven
1. Here Comes the Sun
2. You've Got a Friend
Part II. Greenleaf
3. People Get Ready
4. Our House
5. Let's Get Together
6. Who's Making Love
7. Maggie's Farm
8. Do the Funky Chicken
9. Sweet Baby James
10. Take Good Care of My Baby
11. Money Honey
12. Summertime
Part III. Floras Creek
13. Rocky Mountain High
14. Leaving on a Jet Plane
15. Family Affair
16. Get It While You Can
17. With a Little Help From My Friends
18. Me and Bobby McGee
19. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
20. The Loco-Motion
21. Everyday People
22. You've Got a Friend
23. Strawberry Fields Forever
24. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
25. You Can't Always Get What You Want
26. I Am Woman
27. This Land is Your Land
28. Can't Buy Me Love
29. The Long and Winding Road
Epilogue

Naked in the woods : my unexpected years in a hippie commune /

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