Communities Magazine #176 (Fall 2017) - Learning From The Past

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Our Fall issue, sponsored in part by the Communal Studies Association, focuses on Learning from the Past. Current communitarians reflect on lessons from their own and their communities' histories, and on inspiration from historical communities that inform their own efforts. Students of communalism share the outcomes of their research, including recipes for success and failure and other insights from past and present communities. Community seekers and founders describe what they've learned so far. Throughout, we explore how learning from the past can help us navigate the present and move toward a more vibrant, functional, cooperative future.

Articles in “Learning From The Past”

* Publisher's Note--Celebrating 30, Looking Forward by Sky Blue
* Notes from the Editor--Memory Lane Is No Dead End by Chris Roth
* The Communal Studies Association by Don Pitzer
* Why The Farm Collective Failed by Melvyn Stiriss
* Why The Farm Survived by Douglas Stevenson
* Tracking the Communities Movement: Years of History and the Modern FIC by Sky Blue and Betsy Morris
* Learning from Our Past by Bill Metcalf
* Tracing Windward's Memeology by Walt Patrick
* Why I Study Communal Societies by Susan Matarese
* Fifty Years of Utopian Intentioneering at Twin Oaks Community by A. Allen Butcher
* The Value of Community: What Defines Success? by Deborah Altus
* Life Lessons for Community Longevity by Graham Ellis
* What Past and Present Communities Can Teach New Communities by Raven MoonRaven
* My Advice to Others Planning to Start an Ecovillage, Revisited by Lois Arkin
* Happy, Healthy, Functional, Fit: What Works Best in Present-Day Intentional Communities by Zach Rubin, Ma'ikwe Ludwig, and Don Willis
* Intentional Community in a Nicaraguan Jungle: Honoring my duality through community practices by Elizabeth Arnott
* Overcoming Our Americanness by Colin Doyle
* A Community Journey by Brittny Love
* Dreaming of a Different Way by Amanda Crowell
* Forty Years in Community: Has It Made a Difference? by Linda Moore
* The Start of Ravens' Roost--Ravens Unite by Mary Miner
* Five Things We've Learned Before We've Ever Built by Mairead Cleary
* The Community of Camp Catawba by Charles A. Miller
* Review--The Unsettlers by Nancy Roth
* Creating Cooperative Culture--Honoring Diana Leafe Christian by FIC Staff