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Sandy Baird describes growing up as a Roman Catholic in Springfield, Massachusetts, and her evolution as a political activist, beginning in high school, and accelerating because of the Vietnam War while she was at graduate school in Madison,…

Ellen David Friedman describes her development as a community organizer, beginning in high school with anti-war demonstrations and continuing at Harvard, where she participated in a number of sit-ins. She also speaks of her political evolution into a…

Lisa Freitag describes growing up in the Boston, Massachusetts area and moving to New Hampshire in 1973, having been influenced by the Whole Earth Catalog and back-to-the-land movement. She speaks of meeting John Freitag in Canaan, New Hampshire, of…

Michele Clark describes growing up in New York City and attending City College of New York in 1967, during which time she joined the Bread and Puppet Theater and participated in anti-war demonstrations and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)…

Ginny Callan recounts growing up in Queens, New York in the context of the late 60s, and discusses her life at Goddard College from 1970 to 1974, including classes, dorms, campus life, and the Bread and Puppet Theater. She also describes her work…

Louise Andrews speaks growing up in the Boston area, becoming pregnant as a teenager, getting married and following her husband, Charles Pratt, as he pursued his academic career. She discusses the isolation of raising a child in student housing, and…

Joyce Cheney speaks of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, attending the University of Michigan, and her first visit to Vermont working at a Quaker camp in Plymouth, Vermont. She then discusses her move to Vermont to work at the Brandon Training…

Jennifer Kochman talks about her early life in Wisconsin, Vermont, and Illinois, becoming pregnant as a teenager, living as a single mother, and moving back to Vermont in 1969. She also speaks of the impact of the Unitarian Church on her life, and of…

Gene Bergman describes growing up in New Rochelle, New York, school desegregation, anti-war demonstrations, and his fond memories of Maria Sanders, the family's housekeeper, who influenced his view of the civil rights movement. In the bulk of the…

Larry Gordon describes growing up in a very political household, becoming involved with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Swarthmore College and at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, particularly the community organizing aspect,…

Jennifer Boyer speaks attending Beloit College, where she took part in anti-war demonstrations, dropping out and spending a summer in Europe, where she found out about Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. She enrolled at Goddard College in 1971,…

Susan Burt describes growing up in New Jersey and briefly attending Rutgers University. Reflecting that 60s "free love" often seemed more applicable to men than to women, she describes finding herself in the role of a single mother in 1969 near…