New Buffalo 1st edition  Journals from a Taos Commune  New
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New Buffalo: New Buffalo was one of the most successful of the
collective farms that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s.
Arthur Kopecky's journals take us back to that era as he and his
comrades wend their way to the area near Taos, New Mexico, where
they encounter magic, wisdom, a mix of people, the Peyote
Church, planting, and hard winters.The journals trace the
group's evolution to adulthood as the party mood of the early
1970s gives way to the concerns of maintaining a growing farm.
By 1975, several hundred people had called New Buffalo home and
the business turned away from their counterculture goats,
focusing, instead, on dairy cows. "New Buffalo was emblematic of
any number of communes where people came together by
happenstance and "grew" a life together. The struggle and costs,
the hard work, the endless labor and attention required to be
self-sufficient; the learning of ne