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FAR OUT: Life On & After the Commune
Directed by Charles Light
Available for educational use: bullfrogfilms.com/newreleases.html
Blending contemporary interviews and a remarkable trove of original archival footage, FAR OUT: Life On & After the Commune tells the story of two rural New England communal farms started by a group of radical journalists from the Liberation News Service (LNS). In 1968, the group left New York City and founded two communes—at Packer Corners in Guilford, VT, and in Montague, MA. After leaving the city and turning away from national politics, the group of mostly young city slickers became pioneers in the back-to-the-land and organic farming movement. With the help of their neighbors, they spent the first five years learning rudimentary agricultural skills as well as how to live and work with each other as a communal family.
In 1973, when the local utility proposed a giant twin nuclear plant four miles from the Montague Farm, they became active opponents and subsequently became leaders in the burgeoning No Nukes movement, involving themselves in the battles over the Seabrook nuclear plant in New Hampshire, Diablo Canyon in California, and scores of reactor sites in between.
FAR OUT: Life On & After the Commune
Directed by Charles Light
Available for educational use: bullfrogfilms.com/newreleases.html
Blending contemporary interviews and a remarkable trove of original archival footage, FAR OUT: Life On & After the Commune tells the story of two rural New England communal farms started by a group of radical journalists from the Liberation News Service (LNS). In 1968, the group left New York City and founded two communes—at Packer Corners in Guilford, VT, and in Montague, MA. After leaving the city and turning away from national politics, the group of mostly young city slickers became pioneers in the back-to-the-land and organic farming movement. With the help of their neighbors, they spent the first five years learning rudimentary agricultural skills as well as how to live and work with each other as a communal family.
In 1973, when the local utility proposed a giant twin nuclear plant four miles from the Montague Farm, they became active opponents and subsequently became leaders in the burgeoning No Nukes movement, involving themselves in the battles over the Seabrook nuclear plant in New Hampshire, Diablo Canyon in California, and scores of reactor sites in between.
