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Farm Friends

From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond

by Tom Fels

Foreword by Carl Oglesby

Praise

"Immensely enjoyable account of a modern rite of passage in which reintegration into society provided important new insights into social norms and expectations."

—Dr. Robert Cox, Professor of history and head of special collections and archives, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Thanks to Tom Fels' Farm Friends, we can begin to unravel the importance and influence of the wildest, freest, loosest decade of our lives."

—Peter Goldmark, Project Director, Environmental Defense, former President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Chairman and CEO of the International Herald Tribune

"Make an exception and buy this book! Shop-a-lujah!"

—Reverend Billy Talen, author of What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is In My Store? and What Would Jesus Buy?, and spiritual leader of the Church of Stop Shopping

"Farm Friends reveals how the myths of the Sixties began, and its roots put down through the lives of very real people. Both those of us who were there, and those who have only heard second hand that something extraordinary happened in the Sixties, will find Fels' narrative a delicious and important read."

—Carl Oglesby, from the Foreword

"Farm Friends is a baby-boomer's Blithedale Romance. Fels reminds the rest of us that the boomers really did make revolution even if it didn't turn out the way they planned."

—Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America

"I've been a Tom Fels fan for years. He writes beautifully because he thinks with powerful clarity. This book--a journey, an elegy, an investigation--touches the soul of an era and, at day's end, the aching, searching American heart."

—Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, and A Hope in the Unseen

"Farm Friends serves as a valuable contribution to countercultural history, enhanced by profiles of visionaries from that era who have lived their alternative philosophy and values. From rural to urban settings, the common thread in Tom Fels' book is a sense of evolving community."

—Paul Krassner, founder and editor of The Realist