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"You're either buried with your crystals or your shotgun." That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today.
Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society—only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.| Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Heaven in a Flower Part I: The Story of Homesteading over Time 1. You Can See Other People's Poop 2. A Buzzel about Kantuck 3. You Can't Eat Scenery 4. Never Seen So Much Hair in Your Life Part II: Cultural Division in a Capitalist Society 5. Ain't Nothin' in Them Books 6. I Haven't Felt My Hands in Years 7. Hard Living Part III: Homesteading as Resistance 8. Don't Need Their Coal Epilogue: Without a Chief Notes Bibliography Index Back cover | One of Progressive Magazine's Favorite Reads of 2020 — One of Progressive Magazine's Favorite Reads of 2020
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Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society—only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.| Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Heaven in a Flower Part I: The Story of Homesteading over Time 1. You Can See Other People's Poop 2. A Buzzel about Kantuck 3. You Can't Eat Scenery 4. Never Seen So Much Hair in Your Life Part II: Cultural Division in a Capitalist Society 5. Ain't Nothin' in Them Books 6. I Haven't Felt My Hands in Years 7. Hard Living Part III: Homesteading as Resistance 8. Don't Need Their Coal Epilogue: Without a Chief Notes Bibliography Index Back cover | One of Progressive Magazine's Favorite Reads of 2020 — One of Progressive Magazine's Favorite Reads of 2020
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Jason Strange is an assistant professor of general studies and peace and social justice studies at Berea College, and the chair of the Department of Peace and Social Justice Studies.
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