"In 1970, Margaret Grundstein abandoned her graduate degree at Yale and followed her husband, an Indonesian prince and community activist, to a commune in the backwoods of Oregon. Together with ten friends and an ever-changing mix of strangers, they began to build their vision of utopia. Naked in the Woods chronicles Grundstein's shift from reluctant hippie to committed utopian--sacrificing phones, electricity, and running water to live on 160 acres of remote forest with nothing but a drafty cabin and each other. Grundstein, (whose husband left, seduced by "freer love") faced tough choices. Could she make it as a single woman in man's country? Did she still want to? How committed was she to her new life? Although she reveled in the shared transcendence of communal life deep in the natural world, disillusionment slowly eroded the dream. Brotherhood frayed when food became scarce. Rifts formed over land ownership. Dogma and reality clashed. Many people, baby boomers and millennials alike, have romantic notions about the 1960s and 70s. Grundstein's vivid account offers an unflinching, authentic portrait of this iconic and often misreported time in American history. Accompanied by a collection of distinctive photographs she took at the time, Naked in the Woods draws readers into a period of convulsive social change and raises timeless questions: how far must we venture to find the meaning we seek, and is it ever far out enough to escape our ingrained human nature?"-- Provided by publisher

1900-1999, Anecdotes, Autobiographies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Personal Memoirs, Baby boom generation, Baby boom generation United States Biography, Biographies, Communal living, Communal living Oregon Biography, Communes (Contre-culture) Oregon Biographies, Country life, Country life Oregon Anecdotes, États-Unis Conditions sociales 1960-198

Pt. I NEW HAVEN 1.Here Comes the Sun 2.You've Got a Friend pt. II GREENLEAF 3.People Get Ready 4.Our House 5.Let's Get Together 6.Who's Making Love 7.Maggie's Farm 8.Do the Funky Chicken 9.Sweet Baby James 10.Take Good Care of My Baby 11.Money Honey 12.Summertime pt. III FLORAS CREEK 13.Rocky Mountain High 14.Leaving on a Jet Plane 15.Family Affair 16.Get It While You Can 17.With a Little Help From My Friends 18.Me and Bobby McGee 19.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 20.The Loco-Motion 21.Everyday People 22.You've Got a Friend 23.Strawberry Fields Forever 24.He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother 25.You Can't Always Get What You Want 26.I Am Woman 27.This Land is Your Land 28.Can't Buy Me Love 29.The Long and Winding Road