Wellspring: A Story From The Deep Country

By Barbara Dean

A book about semi-communal living in California. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933280017
• ISBN13: 9780933280014
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A thoughtful, highly readable account of communal life.

In 1971, Barbara Dean and a dozen other people, some of whom she did not even know, purchaced a ranch on the Eel River in N. California and started an intentional community. None had any experience in country living; all wanted to find an alternative to urban American life. This book is an honest, straightforward, thoughtful and often funny account of their experiment in semi-communal living. Dean focuses primarily on the interactions of the people with the place and each other and how she and the others were changed by the experience. Many people approach the idea of intentional communities with a sort of starry-eyed idealism: this book is quaranteed to bring you down to earth. Through their mistakes and ignorance as well as their good intentions and commitment, the members of the community learn how truly difficult community life is.I highly recommend this book to anyone thinking of starting or joining an intentional communty, it will give you a needed dose of reality...and of hope.