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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--West Virginia.
- Country life.
- Youth protest movements--United States--Biography.
- Youth protest movements.
- Counterculture--United States--Biography.
- Counterculture.
- Urban-rural migration--West Virginia.
- Urban-rural migration.
- Arts--West Virginia--History.
- Arts.
- Handicraft--West Virginia--History.
- Handicraft.
- Hippies--West Virginia--History.
- Hippies.
- Artisans--West Virginia--Biography.
- Artisans.
- West Virginia--Biography.
- West Virginia.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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. When the going got rough, many left. But a significant number remain to this day. Some were artisans when they arrived, while others adopted a craft that provided them with the cash necessary to survive. Hippie Homesteaders tells the story of this movement from the viewpoint of forty artisans and musicians who came to the state, lived on the land, and created successful careers with their craft. There's the couple that made baskets coveted by the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery. There's the draft-dodger that fled to Canada and then became a premier furniture maker. There's the Boston-born VISTA worker who started a quilting cooperative. And, there's the immigrant Chinese potter who lived on a commune. Along with these stories, Hippie Homesteaders examines the serendipitous timing of this influx and the community and economic support these crafters received from residents and state agencies in West Virginia. Without these young transplants, it's possible there would be no Tamarack: The Best of West Virginia, the first statewide collection of fine arts and handcrafts in the nation, and no Mountain Stage, the weekly live musical program broadcast worldwide on National Public Radio since 1983. Forget what you know about West Virginia. Hippie Homesteaders isn't about coal or hillbillies or moonshine or poverty. It is the story of why West Virginia was-and still is-a kind of heaven to so many.
- 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 - 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/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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781938228919
- 193822891X
- 9781938228926
- 1938228928
- OCLC:
- 880579963
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