Aquarian Revolution: Back to the Land

They were the hippies, the drop-outs, the radicals. They came from New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, bought cheap Arkansas land where they could build lives with meaning. Often the topic of heated rhetoric and armchair analysis, those who went 'back to the land' rarely speak in their own voice. Now documented in these interviews, their stories reveal the guts, glory, and grief of the 1960s social revolution. "Denele Campbell's informative 'Aquarian Revolution: Back...
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They were the hippies, the drop-outs, the radicals. They came from New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, bought cheap Arkansas land where they could build lives with meaning. Often the topic of heated rhetoric and armchair analysis, those who went 'back to the land' rarely speak in their own voice. Now documented in these interviews, their stories reveal the guts, glory, and grief of the 1960s social revolution. "Denele Campbell's informative 'Aquarian Revolution: Back to the Land' fills a much-needed niche in the history of the Counter-Culture movement. Unlike in more crowded Europe, America's rural expanse offered an escape, a new beginning in the 1960s, from a social cancer spreading through the dominant culture. The dream of finding land to till and an alternative life style had been an American dream since its founding. America's cities, mired in racism, sexism, poverty, and riots, seemed doomed. The 'baby boomers' sought escape by going to the land, many for the first time. Denele Campbell has carefully chronicled the personal stories of thirty-two pioneers who opted to create their utopian vision in the Ozarks. As such, their quest is at times fascinating, amusing, and often painful. Yet, it is a good read for those who lived through this era as well as today's young." ----T. Zane Reeves, Regents' Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico and author of "Shoes along the Danube."