We Left Our Community but Our Community Never Left Us
By Daniel A. Brown Thirty years after the demise of the Renaissance Community (see Communities #184, Fall 2019: “Whatever Happened to the Renaissance Community?”), its hundreds of former members are still trying to figure out what happened. There is no unified...
Lessons on the Road to Community Stability
By Kara Huntermoon We treated each new person as if they would be the answer to our problems. Our founder, Reba, begged the renters at every meeting to help figure out how to keep the land and community going. “I can’t do this!” she moaned. “It has got to be...
Dinosaurs, Asteroids, Gardening, and Community
By Chris Roth In the past year alone, my tiny home caught fire, my laptop computer was flooded by hot water, a family member was hospitalized, a former community-mate had a stroke, I lost (temporarily) my sole source of income, the swath of older trees nearest to me...
What Does It Take to Break with H(er)story?
By Joan McVilly More than ever I’m questioning the whole project of “intentional community.” What is the purpose? Maybe this is why I felt free to walk away from my community despite what I knew could be the consequence. Was I a lynch pin that now sees that community...On Community: A Graduated Series of Consequences and the “Community Eye”
Just knowing the community has this process in place deters people from breaking agreements. People don’t want to get a knock at the door by one fellow community member, much less three or four.