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Notes from Nethers: Growing Up In A Sixties Commune
This is a unique and honest account of the author's childhood growing up in a commune in rural Virginia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nethers, as the commune came to be called, was started by Eugster's "liberal, radical, union organizing mother," Carla. Committed to radical social change and caught up in the fervor of counterculture, Carla, separated from th...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
October 1st 2007
by Academy Chicago Publishers
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An interesting read about living in a commune, from the perspective of one of the children. Her experience certainly did not mirror her mother or sisters (nor did her mother realize her daughter's actual experience until they talked years later, as adults, but really, this is probably true of many parents and their children, whatever the culture in which they live). It was interesting to read about the culture shock she experienced moving between her mother's communal life and her father's more ...more
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I want you to think of the first words and impressions that pop into your mind when you pick up a book based on the experiences of a young girl growing up on a commune. If you are anything like me you probably have visions of long haired hippies having lots of sex, doing lots of drugs and saying things like "that's heavy" and "free your mind." Although there are long haired hippies aplenty in "Notes from Nethers" there is a also a remarkable lack of sex, drugs and r...more
What I particularly enjoyed about this work is that it wasn't a predictable glowing sentimental look back at life as a flower child. The author led a fairly normal existence in suburban Baltimore for the first eight years of her life. After a divorcing her father, her mother moved her and her sisters to Virginia and gradually began a commune. At first, it was easy, but as the commune grew, life became more and more uncomfortable for the author. The work explores how the communal life affecte...more
Great insight into what it was like on a 1960s commune.
A not terribly exciting, but fairly interesting, look at a very particular time and the author's experience growing up in a hippie commune.
The chapter about the commune's pigs was the nail in the "never eating pork again" coffin.
Courtney
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Recommends it for:
hippies, wanna be hippies, goat lovers
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hippies-and-communes
I loved this book. It wasn't exceptionally written. It wasn't entirely exciting. It wasn't a page turner in the natural sense. But what it was, was incredibly interesting.
I expected this book to have been written by a hippie who thought the commune was awesome. Instead it is written by a woman who gave the reader a realistic vision of what the commune was. It wasn't all good, it wasn't all bad, and it certainly wasn't "her dream".
The book is real. I recommend it.
I expected this book to have been written by a hippie who thought the commune was awesome. Instead it is written by a woman who gave the reader a realistic vision of what the commune was. It wasn't all good, it wasn't all bad, and it certainly wasn't "her dream".
The book is real. I recommend it.
This is a really interesting book. I was expecting a memoir of an idyllic childhood and adolescence spent in a commune. Instead, the author describes her--not unhappiness exactly, but discomfort in that situation. As she told her mother years later, "It wasn't my dream."
An interesting book. It got a little tedious for me but I found it interesting. Shows a very different perspective of life in a sixties commune.
Nothing exceptional, but I found it an interesting glimpse into commune life, as seen from a pre-teen and teen.
my aunt wrote this. its a great look at the real life of a child in a commune. not all happy.
There isn't any drugs, but there sure is nudity and placenta consumption.
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