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I've been reading an interesting (batch) of books lately, but this one has really gotten me. Yay for the Pioneer Valley! And I'm ALWAYS down for some Shays' Rebellion and 60s counterculture. Good stuff!
This is the story of how a little Jeffersonian rebellion, largely centered in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, became part of the cultural legacy '60s underground journalist Marshall Bloom inherited when he founded the Montague Farm in 1968. Stevens harkens back to Shays' Rebellion and colonial history to draw out the historical parallels in Bloom (a friend of Raymond Mungo) and his short, eventful life: demonstrating, being "in the closet" at a time at which it was a necessity, writing, taking mind-altering drugs, and "going back to the land." One of few historical reexaminations of the hippie "back to the land" movement as radical protest.
There's more info about Bloom here and a documentary about him is being made, and its web-site is here.
Very interesting, indeed. I wonder what other strange folks lurk in PV's history - Michael Metelica Rapunzel and Marshall Bloom are both intriguing folks.
This is the story of how a little Jeffersonian rebellion, largely centered in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, became part of the cultural legacy '60s underground journalist Marshall Bloom inherited when he founded the Montague Farm in 1968. Stevens harkens back to Shays' Rebellion and colonial history to draw out the historical parallels in Bloom (a friend of Raymond Mungo) and his short, eventful life: demonstrating, being "in the closet" at a time at which it was a necessity, writing, taking mind-altering drugs, and "going back to the land." One of few historical reexaminations of the hippie "back to the land" movement as radical protest.
There's more info about Bloom here and a documentary about him is being made, and its web-site is here.
Very interesting, indeed. I wonder what other strange folks lurk in PV's history - Michael Metelica Rapunzel and Marshall Bloom are both intriguing folks.