[Rexicana]

You may want to check Intentional Communities Web Site (ecovillages, community, communes, cohousing, coops, sustainable living...) and NOFA Interstate Council: Home too. Good luck!

[mustmove]

Communes- they tried those in the movies and they didn't work.

[Sherylcatmom]

http://www.vermonthistory.org/index....452&Itemid=243

From an e-newsletter:

Almost Utopia

The public is invited to a reception and book signing on Saturday, August 23 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in the Snelling Room of the Pavilion Building, 109 State Street, Montpelier, next to the State House. The Vermont Historical Society is celebrating the release of Almost Utopia, the Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont, 1950. The book features photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, taken almost 60 years ago in Jamaica, Vermont, with text by Greg Joly. The event is free. Rebecca Lepkoff and Greg Joly will be there to meet the public, to talk, and sign books.

In Almost Utopia: The Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont, 1950, Lepkoff captured the lives of the local Vermonters and the people "from away" at work and play during this historic time, as the Korean War made national headlines. Many of Lepkoff's photos chronicle the lives of former urbanites Scott and Helen Nearing, who had purchased land in Jamaica, Vermont, with the vision of creating a utopian homesteading lifestyle and teaching others to live simply in a troubled world. The Nearings later published Living the Good Life in 1954, documenting their homesteading experiences and lifestyle philosophy of non-exploitation, and the book became a classic.