31st May 2005

Green Acres

Robert Paterson writes,

Starting in June, I will be having two interviews a
month on CBC Mainstreet. I have decided to focus on hearing the stories

of the many Back to the Landers who came to PEI in the 1960’s and the 1970’s.

They have great stories to tell that have something
important to tell us again as we enter a time when knowing how to live
simply may become less of a choice and more of a necessity.

For a golden age, they built their own houses, killed
their pigs and chickens, swam naked, made butter and cheese. Most now
live quite conventional lives but what stories! What confidence that
they could do anything! What friendships and what a contribution to
"Our Country"!

I am starting in Eastern Kings - the hot bed of hippiedom. My  guides will be Darla Thompson and John Rousseau.

I’ll be reading, Robert.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 31st, 2024 at 9:12 and is filed under Blogging Community News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

There are currently 2 responses to “Green Acres”

We invite you to comment!

  1. 1 On June 1st, 2024, Peter (the other) said:

    It seems that, in the last few decades, there has been a constant denigrating of the “hippie” experience of the sixties. This was bound to happen as the term “hippie” became so blurred that it came to mean anyone who wore and did the fashionable things of the time. So everyone self describes themselves as having been “hippies” and then write their youthful lives off. I am always heartened to see someone treating some of the deeper actualities of those days seriously and with respect. Hippies aka freaks, were always a small minority, they were just too ripe with signification for the commercial world not to exploit (ie. they were colorful, interesting and sometimes very sexy).

    I’ll be watching too, thanks for the pointer.

  2. 2 On June 1st, 2024, EuroYank said:

    It was the Hippie Generation that discovered the Earth’s ecology was threatened. That generation sparked a temporary movement to save the planet from ecological disaster.

    If enough people, especially the youth, join a movement of non-participation it will bring big business and government to its knees. That is because the system that controls us is fueled my money and profit. If people rebel against this ridiculous control, the power structure can be broken. It exist only because the masses allow it.

    http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/id482.html

Leave a Reply

  • Google Search

  • November 4, 2024

  • This Site Rated S for Seriousness

  • Archives