OT: Long ago and far away: MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Kismet

Kismet

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It was wonderful. Pre-internet access to tools.


(Edit: And, in keeping with the time:

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now.
And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.")
 
Good info in some of those issues.

Picked one up a couple years ago & was disappointed by content
compared to 20 years ago when I read most of them.

Didn't know they were archived on the web.
Calls for a browse through soon.
 
and thanks. You;re full of musical surprises, who beseides you, me and the wife listen to JJ and Zevon?

Keith
 
Issue 7, Basic Axemanship is a good reference, easily translates into Khuks...

I think I still have a lot of them upstairs in the attic...torn apart and wadded, they make fine inexpensive homestead insulation! :D
 
Ferrous,
That great song was sung by Janis, but written by Kris Kristoferson. Hearing it always gives me the shivers.
 
I got disgusted with Mother Earth News back in the late '70's when they started talking about the radon given off by burning kerosene lamp wicks being harmful.:rolleyes:
That was just carrying things a bit too far for me.:grumpy:
 
How about the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG? :)


(Edit: Yvsa and Stevo... I agree on Mother Earth...the early years the publishers worked out of the South East...Carolina...somewhere over there...and were truly subsistence/ecologically-aware folks.

Then, they sold to a New York Publishing firm and it turned into a version of APARTMENT LIFE...with articles on how to build a grape arbor for your loft, instead of cost-effective ways to live with low income and low impact. It was disappointing...and yet, a sign of the times. John Vivian in the early years wrote a book on Building Your Own Homestead. In the later versions of the magazine, he was instructing folks on how to mulch their flower boxes on the balcony.

Funny, I was innocently, and optimistically, expecting my generation to have a profound and positive impact on how humans lived on the planet. I was wrong.)
 
I grew up reading Mother, back when it talked about building a cabin from cast offs and living on $1000 a year. Looked at it about 10 years ago and saw that now it is about how to build a new age mansion for under $500,000 dollars and the best way to find your organic veggies at the farmers market.:barf: Haven't read it since!
 
Originally posted by Kismet
How about the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG? :)

Funny, I was innocently, and optimistically, expecting my generation to have a profound and positive impact on how humans lived on the planet. I was wrong.)
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This interview with Grace Slick captured some of what went awry:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/lounge/1395/whiterabbits/life.html

Many of these people morphed into the extreme- in -your- face activists types that we see in the "elf's"-Earth Liberation Front and other movements dedicated to change through violent action.
 
Originally posted by stevomiller
I grew up reading Mother, back when it talked about building a cabin from cast offs and living on $1000 a year...now it is about how to build a new age mansion for under $500,000 dollars...
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That cabin built out of used phone books for free in the 70's now costs $500,000 and is called a "new age mansion".
 
MEN, ASG and several others have definitely gone down in quality in the time I've been reading them(7-8 years). I tend to find them at local bookstores, and check through them first before I buy them. Been several years since I found an issue worth buying(though it's also been a while since I checked them).
 
I still have a copy of the last Whole Earth catalog floating around somwhere. I used to read that thing for hours on end. Mother Earth News brings back some memories as well, though I haven't looked through a copy for ages.
--Josh
 
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