Download or read book The New Settler Interviews: Boogie at the brink written by Beth Robinson Bosk and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are interviews from the 1980s and 90s with avant-rustic, off-the- gridders--mostly those attempting to make and promote a low impact on nature through independent and blessedly impudent action and work. Interviewees include dowser Charlie Acker, bodger (an itinerant turner of furniture legs) Don Weber, shakuhachi- flute maker Monty Levenson, midwife Carol Miller, and tree-sitter extraordinaire, Julia Butterfly, interviewed by cell phone while still cradled in the boughs of Luna. These interviews chronicle attempts at new local cultures like the Mateel, the Menonmenee nation in Wisconsin, the local-currency innovators of Ithaca and the Berkshires, and the regeneration activists of Appalachia. The counterculture continues to reproduce itself, even if on the margins, and mostly removed from media attention. Bosk is editor of New Settler Interview a kind-of Mother Earth News with tips and techniques replaced by talk and tenets. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR