Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
by Roberta Price
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Author: Roberta PriceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-30
ISBN: 1558495738
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
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Book Review: Thanks for the Trip
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend at work loaned me her copy of this book. She lived in La Veta and knew, or had met some of the people who used to live in Libre (Adrienne, for one that I can remember). I became instantly enthralled in the story and found myself procrastinating at the end of the book to keep from finishing it. Although I was 10 in 1968, I've always had a hippie spirit. My husband and I sold everything in 1979 and moved into our Ford van with our 6-month old daughter and headed to Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas from Nebraska to "live off the land". We built a little homemade house like some of the ones described in the book. Our chickens laid eggs in our dresser drawers. Our cat had a litter of kittens in the bed beside us while we were sleeping. We heated water on a woodstove made out of a 55 gallon barrel. We scratched out a garden spot in rocky soil. Lived on nothing. Had an outhouse, etc. So I could relate to a lot of the book and enjoyed seeing how our lives might have been different in a communal setting. Besides, who could not read this book after seeing that front cover photo?
Summary of Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
Winner of the 2006 Zia Award from the New Mexico Press Women With a strong, distinctive voice, Roberta Price recalls the years she spent in the Huerfano ("Orphan") Valley when it was a petrie dish of countercultural experiments. Documenting her story with photos as well as words, and placing it in the larger context of the times, she describes her participation in the antiwar movement, the advent of the women's movement, and her encounters with such icons as Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Abbie Hoffman, Stewart Brand, Allen Ginsburg, and Baba Ram Dass.General Books
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