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A New Dawn for the New LeftLiberation Limited: Sexuality and Tragedy

A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation Limited: Sexuality and Tragedy [Richard Wizansky and Laurie Dodge were already boyfriends when they hitchhiked to Packer Corners, Vermont, to help establish a new communal farm on Memorial Day 1968. Even on that first trip to the farm, their friends recognized the magnetism between those two very different communards. Wizansky studied nineteenth-century American literature and would eventually help Packer Corners develop the Monteverdi Players outdoor theater company. Dodge became the communal woodsman and carpenter responsible for constructing the dinner platform that would become the scene of legendary meals and repartee. They eventually lived together in one of several private cabins scattered across Packer Corners. Everybody at the farm knew that they were lovers. But whereas the romantic travails of straight couples at Packer Corners and Montague Farm formed a continual source of conversation and interest, Wizansky and Dodge’s relationship remained taboo—acknowledged, but unexplored.1 Even Wizansky was guilty of such obfuscation. When he wrote “A Nervous Appraisal,” a 1973 essay on communal romance for the collectively authored farm memoir, Home Comfort, he explored a full range of straight relationships without once discussing gay communards.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Dawn for the New LeftLiberation Limited: Sexuality and Tragedy

Slonecker, Blake
Springer Journals — Nov 3, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
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978-1-349-44789-3
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59 –69
DOI
10.1057/9781137280831_5
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Abstract

[Richard Wizansky and Laurie Dodge were already boyfriends when they hitchhiked to Packer Corners, Vermont, to help establish a new communal farm on Memorial Day 1968. Even on that first trip to the farm, their friends recognized the magnetism between those two very different communards. Wizansky studied nineteenth-century American literature and would eventually help Packer Corners develop the Monteverdi Players outdoor theater company. Dodge became the communal woodsman and carpenter responsible for constructing the dinner platform that would become the scene of legendary meals and repartee. They eventually lived together in one of several private cabins scattered across Packer Corners. Everybody at the farm knew that they were lovers. But whereas the romantic travails of straight couples at Packer Corners and Montague Farm formed a continual source of conversation and interest, Wizansky and Dodge’s relationship remained taboo—acknowledged, but unexplored.1 Even Wizansky was guilty of such obfuscation. When he wrote “A Nervous Appraisal,” a 1973 essay on communal romance for the collectively authored farm memoir, Home Comfort, he explored a full range of straight relationships without once discussing gay communards.2]

Published: Nov 3, 2015

Keywords: Communal Farm; Sexual Liberation; Communal Romance; Farm Friend; Sexual Frustration

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