LISTEN: Tom Fels: From the Late ’60s to the West Seventies
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Tom Fels, author of Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond, talked to Rob Williams on Free Vermont Radio’s secessionist radio show Equal Time about his memoir, and about the evolution of the Baby Boomer generation—from ’60s idealism on a communal farm in New England to ’80s conservatism and the hustle and bustle of midtown Manhattan.
TF: I’m interested in telling the story of a group of idealists and their enthusiasm and energy, and then what became of it. And that’s why I think it’s quite relevant today, especially to Vermonters who have still a lot of the same issues.
RW: You begin with this sort of wonderful moment from The Metamorphosis: “My purpose is to tell of bodies / which have been transformed / into shapes of a different kind.”
TF: Now that’s ambitious, huh?
RW: [Laughs] It is. But it fits.
TF: The common line is that the Sixties have come and gone, and my feeling is that, first of all, they’re still with us, and second of all, they’re very important and have not vanished, and their lesson, the lesson of that time is very important.
(Tom follows Gary Beckwith at 00:31:00.)
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