Ebook: Pagan Time: an American Childhood

With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a place to send teens with drug addictions and emotional problems, children with whom Micah and her sister would grow up. This complex memoir mixes a moving celebration of the utopian spirit and its desire for community and freedom with a lacerating critique of the consequences of those desires -- especially for the children involved. How could the campaign for a perfect home and family create.;CHAPTER ONE: How to get there; CHAPTER TWO: And the walls became the world all around 1967-1968; CHAPTER THREE: Warrior bride 1969-1970; CHAPTER FOUR: Inuit adventure Summer 1971; CHAPTER FIVE: Midnight hour Winter 1971-1972; CHAPTER SIX: The last battle 1973; CHAPTER SEVEN: The marriage of Boadicea and Abraham Lincoln 1953-1963; CHAPTER EIGHT: Happily ever after Summer 1973; CHAPTER NINE: The new mother 1973-1974; CHAPTER TEN: I'm rubber, you're glue 1974; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Do not cling; Acknowledgments.