Tom Fels - Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune

Tom Fels presents Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune ($24.95). Founded in 1968, Montague Farm was one of a group of New Age communes intending to set an example of how life might be lived outside the conventional strictures of mid- to late twentieth century American life. Informed by his own experience as a resident of Montague Farm, by decades of contact with the farm’s extended family, and by the considerable writing about this period – from memoirs, novels, and notes of farm-family members to academic studies in the history and sociology of the time, Fels strives to bring alive an era of contemporary history, and to link it both to its consequences in the present and to its roots in the past. 

Tom Fels worked as a curator, mounting exhibits at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the California Historical Society, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, as well as at the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam. In 1986 he was named a Chester Dale Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 1998 a Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library.
 

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51 Tamal Vista Blvd
94925 Corte Madera
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Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune By Tom Fels, Daniel Aaron (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Tom Fels, Daniel Aaron (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9781558499713
Published: University of Massachusetts Press - October 12th, 2012