Beginner's Luck: Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains.

Terence, Malcolm:

ISBN 10: 0870719343 / ISBN 13: 9780870719349

Published by Corvallis: Oregon State Univ Pr, 2018

About this Item

236 p., Ill. Der Einband ist vorne fleckig, ansonsten ein gutes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. The front cover is stained, otherwise a good copy without markings. -- Contents -- Hall of Justice -- The Recipe for Chimichangas, or How I Saved the Commune -- Escaping Utopia -- White Bear -- Swimming with the Sharks -- The Company Loves Misery -- Playing with Fire -- Meet the Famous Flores Sisters -- Winter Sun -- Water and Love -- Storming Oz -- Born at Butler Creek -- Coyote's Aunt -- Sorting Forest from the Trees -- Blue Paint Rule Book -- Drift Smoke and Blackberries -- Pink Slips and Strawberries -- Beginner's Luck -- Saloon -- Torches, Pitchforks, and Other Organizing Tools -- "Thank You for Your Input" -- Cooperation, Collaboration, and Other -- Four-Letter Words-An Epilogue -- Postscript: Methodology and Acknowledgments. ISBN 9780870719349 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 360.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beginner's Luck: Dispatches from the Klamath Mountains.
• Publisher: Corvallis: Oregon State Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870719343
• ISBN 13: 9780870719349
• Binding: Paperback.
• Condition: Gut
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A clueless big-city guy, dropped out from newspaper work, ends up at a new hippie commune in the mountains in the late 1960s, but his luck holds. As he falls in love with the place, he moves into the local community, where people have a checkered opinion of hippies, but it’s the kind of place where people help each other out, even if they don’t always agree.

About the Author

Malcolm Terence left his job as a reporter at the LA Times in the late 1960s to go traveling with an avant garde rock band, which he left to help found a large hippie commune in the Klamath Mountains. After a few years there, he moved to the small river towns nearby and joined a large reforestation cooperative. He followed that with work logging, setting up timber sales and fighting wildfires. Along the way, he married a local school teacher, raised a family, and helped the local communities oppose certain timber practices like herbicide use in the forest and over logging. He still writes for regional papers, teaches school, and operates a large garden.