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This fascinating memoir recounts two years of adventure, hardship, and life lessons as a woman moves her family to the Camelsfoot Commune in BC, Canada.
The time is the early 1980s. Judith Plant and her new partner, Kip, are ready for a change. Inspired by Fred Brown, their professor at Simon Fraser University, they join a commune in a remote valley near the Yalakom River, deep in Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
Culture Gap tells the story of Judith and Kip’s two-year sojourn. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to a moving human drama. Judith’s son Willie takes to the new life, but Willie’s sisters feel the strong pull of the life they left behind. Meanwhile Fred, the inspiration for the commune, is dying of cancer.
An absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, Culture Gap also shows a young mother's struggle to reconcile her ideals and her responsibility to those closest to her.
Judith Plant is the acting publisher of New Society Publishers and the co-editor of Healing the Wounds: the Promise of Ecofeminism and Home! A Bioregional Reader. She lived in Camelsfoot for two years in the early 1980's with her children and her partner, Kip, and now lives on Gabriola Island, BC
Prologue: The Trail
Chapter One: We Take the Plunge (and the Trail)
Chapter Two: Our Courage Did Not Quail
Chapter Three: How Do We Decide What to Do?
Chapter Four: Camelsfoot Meets Eaglestarr
Chapter Five: Big Food, Big Issues
Chapter Six: The First Winter
Chapter Seven: Work Hard, Play Hard, Learn Lots
Chapter Eight: A Hard Lesson, and Real Love
Chapter Nine: Power Outside and In...
Chapter Ten: We Lose Fred...Forever
Epilogue: Another World is Possible
Acknowledgements
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