Comments on: Escapist fare

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:43:32 +0000

Thanks, Lucy. Well, there is a pretty adorable photo of me in pyjamas feeding an orphaned baby bunny with a medicine dropper. And plenty of anecdotes, of course, though it was all too long ago for me to be embarrassed by them now.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:59:44 +0000

I was going to ask if there were any embarrassing pics of or anecdotes about you…

Congratulations to your mum, it must be nice.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:27:41 +0000

Hi Sven – I’d be surprised if it weren’t in the library. Back in the early 80s, when my mom still had her column in the Mirror, I suppose it was as close to a local bestseller as a book could get in an area without many book-readers.

By: SvenWaring

SvenWaring — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:59:59 +0000

Dave–Was Escape to the Mountain available at the Tyrone-Snyder Library?
Some of the stories described in the post sound so familiar. I think I may have read it.
Glad to see it back in print, regardless.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:52:00 +0000

John – Yeah, we were part of the Back to the Land movement, for sure. We had a country place in Maine, too, where we lived for five years before moving here — in a red VW microbus. We read the Whole Earth Catalogue and subscribed to Mother Earth News from its inception. Otherwise, though, my parents had no hippie tendencies (my dad has never worn jeans in his life), and were actually a few years too old to qualify as baby boomers.

Dana and Jo – You bet. I’m looking forward to re-reading it — should be a total nostalgia trip. There are a couple of embarassing photos of me in it, though.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:32:01 +0000

Oh. wow. How cool to have a book about your childhood.

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:08:55 +0000

This is great. So great.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:52:40 +0000

This looks like a great title for the “Back to the Land” collection I’ve begun. Thanks.