Galena Bay Odyssey
Margo Beredjiklian
, Cheryl Johnson
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Catherine Lee
, Lynn Mullen
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Alanna Virtue
, Dot Mann
, Andrea Pole
, Agnes Marshall
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Natasha Andres
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Jane Graham
, Mary Montague
, Sandra Lackie
, Mark Gorman
, Chantal Comeau
, Don Gershman
, Marjorie Roy
, Mary Therrien
, Andre Labonte
, Joseph Chirayil
, Mary Lester
, Sarah Schwartz
, Melissa Poremba
, Barry Kazimer
, toni velthuis
, Jennifer Beyak
, Arvia Chen
, Tanis Anne
, Beth Dekoker
, Ryan Woods
, Kevin Smith
, Joe Mitchell
, Brittney Warren
, Sarah Stang
, Susan Toy
, Jeanette Burchaski
, Leslie Vermeer
, Janet Meisner
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Linda MacIntyre
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Caroline Woodward
, Kym Marsh
, Filomena Falocco
, Tiffany C
, Andrea Gerson
, Sara Mody
, Piroska Blanchette
, Michelle Arsenault
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Shawna Moodie
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Robert Hykawy
, Meghan Barton
, Stephanie Trotter
, Karen LeBlanc
, Lynn Bechtel
, Lindsey Andronak
, Paula Adam
, Kartik Gupta
, Joan Clare
, Chris Lantz
, Margaret McKay
, Debbie Youngman
, Mary Danieli
, Marla Schecter Howard
, BJ Underwood
, Heather O'Connor
, Irene O’Neill
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Claire Gear
, Ken Gilmour
, Catherine Westerberg
, Rodney Cross
, Katie Macalister
, Anita Jones
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Laura Patterson
, C. Ray
, Christa Seeley
, kristine hibbs
, Sue Zahorak
, Stephen Leckie
, Benita Hartwell
, Allison Dube
, Mary C. Kelly
, Kim Driscoll
, Crystal Collins
, Kelly Pollock-Clemett
, Maureen Brownlee
, Anna Rowe
, Lynn Andrews
, Debra Fisher
, Sharon Forzley
, Janice Hutchinson
, Rhona Brinkman
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, A Walsh
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A writer and educator reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.
What compelled a nice Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York to spend a decade of her life as a hippie homesteader in the BC wilderness? Galena Bay Odyssey traces Ellen Schwartz’s journey from a born-and-raised urbanite who was terrified of the woods to a self-determined logger, cabin-builder, gardener, chicken farmer, apiarist, and woodstove cook living on a communal farm in the Kootenays.
Part memoir, part exploration of what motivated the exodus of young hippies—including American expatriates, like Ellen and her husband, Bill—to go “back to the land” in remote parts of North America during the 1960s and ’70s, this fascinating book explores the era’s naivety, idealism, and sense of adventure. Like most “back to the land” books, Galena Bay Odyssey describes the physical work involved in clearing land, constructing buildings, and living off of what they produced, but it also traces the complicated journey of discovery this experience brought to Ellen and Bill. Now, nearly half a century later, Ellen reflects on what her homesteader experience taught her about living more fully, honestly, and ecologically.
