{"id":5538,"date":"2015-01-29T09:41:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2015-01-29T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:41:04","slug":"farm-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/01\/29\/farm-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"hey<\/a>Hey Beatnik! this is the Farm book<\/em> by Stephen Gaskin is a tutorial on all things hippy and counterculture.\u00a0 Gaskin, founder of \u201cThe Farm\u201d in Tennessee, was a famous leader in the Haight-Ashbury circles of San Francisco and eventually became a green party presidential candidate in 2000.\u00a0 This book, published a few years after the founding of The Farm, is a guide to living independently and at one with nature and community.\u00a0 Some sections describe practical tasks such as farming and spiritual midwifery while other sections describe more intangible goals such as community harmony and love.\u00a0 Gaskin even goes as far as to offer construction and building advice as well as including nutrition charts and information in order to ensure that the vegetarian lifestyle is properly addressed.\"hey<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of the advice in this book is surprising given the context.\u00a0 In the section on healing, a discussion of the importance of spiritual health and telepathic healing is paired with the caveat that \u201cif something is mechanically wrong with your bod, go see a doctor.\u201d\u00a0 Generally a book about feeling good and living in harmony, there is enough practical advice in this book that it works as a guide to successfully setting up and maintaining a commune.\u00a0 Filled with pictures of life on the farm, this book is an interesting insight into hippy culture of the 1970s.\"Hey<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey beatnik! : this is the Farm book by Stephen and the Farm \/ Summertown, Tenn. : Book Pub. Co., \u00a91974<\/a> is available in Widener\u2019s collection.\u00a0 Several other books by Stephen Gaskin are also in the Santo Domingo Collection including Amazing dope tales \/ Berkeley, Calif. : Ronin, 1999<\/a>, The caravan \/ [New York] Random House [1972]<\/a>, and Cannabis spirituality : including the 13 guidelines for sanity and safety \/ New York : High Times Books, 1996.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Emma Clement, Santo Domingo Library Assistant, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Hey Beatnik! this is the Farm book by Stephen Gaskin is a tutorial on all things hippy and counterculture.\u00a0 Gaskin, founder of \u201cThe Farm\u201d in Tennessee, was a famous leader in the Haight-Ashbury circles of San Francisco and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,72741],"tags":[113736,72720],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-widener-library","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1rk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}