Events Counterculture Comes to Vermont: Going Up the Country with Yvonne Daley

Pentangle Arts will be bringing the Summer of Love to the forefront of our local minds with their upcoming production of Hair: A Tribal Rock Musical - so we wanted to take a look at how the counterculture changed Vermont specifically. Yvonne Daley will be joining us in the shop to discuss her upcoming book: Going Up the Country, which focuses on exactly that time period in our state's history. Yvonne will lead a discussion on Vermont in the 1960s, to bring us all up to date on what was happening here during that tumultuous time in our country's past.

Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of rural Vermont, spawning a revolution in lifestyle, politics, sexuality, and business practices that would have a profound impact on both the state and the nation. The movement brought hippies, back-to-the-landers, political radicals, sexual libertines, and utopians to a previously conservative state and led us to today’s farm to table way of life, environmental consciousness, and progressive politics as championed by Bernie Sanders.



About the Author: Yvonne Daley is the author of five previous books and director of the Green Mountain Writers Conference. This upcoming book, Going Up the Country, will be available in June of this year.