About That Clothesline…
After a communitarian’s love affair with line drying starts to wane, and eventually withers, she leaves community—partly to pursue an evolving relationship with a clothes dryer.
The Shaker “Culture of Cleanliness”
Because of their commitment to a culture of personal and community cleanliness, the Shakers largely escaped the cholera epidemics which plagued the rest of the country in the 1800s.
Planted in Good Soil: Cultural Roots and Community
A community may achieve an ideal balance by drawing upon deep cultural roots to inform its structures and common life, while remaining vitally open to fresh insight and creativity in response to the present.
Mind the Gap: How the Cultural Difference between Incoming Residents and the Community Can Indicate Whether They Will Stay
A small culture gap between a new resident and the community correlates with greater chances of a long-term fit; a large culture gap makes this much less likely, but not impossible.
An Evolution in Community
Full immersion in a residential intentional community transforms over the course of a decade and a half into a much wider experience of community.
A Day in the Life
A day’s interactions in a rural intentional community in central Virginia show that it is much more than a “hippie subdivision.”