{"product_id":"new-buffalo-journals-from-a-taos-commune-9780826333957","title":"New Buffalo: Journals from a Taos Commune","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Buffalo was one of the most successful of the collective farms that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s. Arthur Kopecky's journals take us back to that era as he and his comrades wend their way to the area near Taos, New Mexico, where they encounter magic, wisdom, a mix of people, the Peyote Church, planting, and hard winters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journals trace the group's evolution to adulthood as the party mood of the early 1970s gives way to the concerns of maintaining a growing farm. By 1975, several hundred people had called New Buffalo home and the business turned away from their counterculture goats, focusing, instead, on dairy cows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Buffalo was emblematic of any number of communes where people came together by happenstance and grew a life together. The struggle and costs, the hard work, the endless labor and attention required to be self-sufficient; the learning of new skills, social and physical, that made every day an adventure are all here. . . . Remember or learn what it felt like to be young, optimistic, empowered and dedicated to making a better life. You will be amazed to see what persistent, dedicated, selfless, hard work can accomplish.--Peter Coyote, actor, activist, and former resident of the Olema commune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur Kopecky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of New Mexico Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.56h x 6.44w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826333957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKopecky, Arthur:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Arthur Kopecky is a finish carpenter in Sebastopol, California. He and his wife continue to work with soil and plants in Sonoma County.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of New Mexico Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40201481683059,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9613ffce-a632-4958-a088-a2080e90415b.jpg?v=1656166210","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/new-buffalo-journals-from-a-taos-commune-9780826333957","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}