Hippie homesteaders : arts, crafts, music and living on the land in West Virginia / Carter Taylor Seaton.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Seaton, Carter Taylor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Country life.
• Youth protest movements.
• Counterculture.
• Urban-rural migration.
• Arts.
• History.
• Handicraft.
• Hippies.
• Artisans.
• West Virginia--Biography.
• West Virginia.
• United States.
• Artisans--West Virginia--Biography.
• Hippies--West Virginia--History.
• Handicraft--West Virginia--History.
• Arts--West Virginia--History.
• Urban-rural migration--West Virginia.
• Counterculture--United States--Biography.
• Youth protest movements--United States--Biography.
• Country life--West Virginia.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Arts, crafts, music and living on the land in West Virginia

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, WV : West Virginia University Press, 2014.

Summary:

It's the 1960s. The Vietnam War is raging and protests are erupting across the United States. In many quarters, young people are dropping out of society, leaving their urban homes behind in an attempt to find a safe place to live on their own terms, to grow their own food, and to avoid a war they passionately decry. During this time, West Virginia becomes a haven for thousands of these homesteaders-or back-to-the-landers, as they are termed by some. Others call them hippies. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Traditional handcrafts in Appalachia
• The serendipitous timing of West Virginia's arts outreach program
• Pacifists, protesters, and draft dodgers
• The times, they were a'changin'
• Joe Chasnoff, furniture maker
• Tom Rodd, potter and attorney
• John Wesley Williams, furniture maker
• Hell no! we won't go either!
• Ric MacDowell, photographer and community activist
• James Thibeault and Colleen Anderson, Cabin Creek quilts
• Dick and Vivian Pranulis, Wolf Creek printery
• Adrienne Belafonte Biesemeyer, weaver, social activist, dancer
• Norm Sartorius, spoon maker and sculptor
• A safe place to live
• The Putnam County Pickers
• This land is cheap land
• Goin' up the country
• Oh, the hills...beautiful hills
• Leaning on friends
• Living the good life
• Looking for the good life; background
• Jim Probst, furniture maker
• Bill Hopen, sculptor
• Gail and Steve Balcourt, candlemakers
• Finding utopia in Floe and Chloe
• Keith Lahti, potter
• Tom and Connie McColley, basketmakers
• Communes and intentional communities
• Living in harmony
• Joe Lung, potter, painter, jeweler
• Jude Binder, dancer, mask maker, teacher
• Ron Swanberg, leathersmith
• Passing it down
• Glenn Singer, performer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index.

ISBN:

• 9781938228902
• 1938228901

OCLC:

858940119