This is a thoroughly unique and honest account of the author's early life growing up in a commune in rural SW Virginia in the 1960s and 1970s. It offers a rivetting look at a time and place long gone and is essentially an important piece of American cultural history. It also outlines the history of efforts to create a utopian society which demonstrates the fact that no matter how ideally a societal structure is conceived, its enactment cannot escape the imperfections of humans who embody it.