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Conover, Ted.
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Conover, Ted -- Homes and haunts.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Self-reliant living -- Colorado.
Rural landowners -- United States -- Biography.
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Conover, Ted.
Conover, Ted -- Homes and haunts.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Self-reliant living -- Colorado.
Rural landowners -- United States -- Biography.
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Cheap land Colorado : off-gridders at America's edge /
Ted
Conover
.
by
Conover
,
Ted
.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Call #:
070.4092 C753c
Subjects
Conover
,
Ted
--
Homes
and
haunts
.
Journalists
--
United States
--
Biography.
Self-reliant living
--
Colorado.
Rural landowners
--
United States
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780525521488 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
283 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.
Summary:
"In May 2017,
Ted
Conover
went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of life that is about living cheaply, on your own land
--
and keeping clear of the mainstream. The failed subdivisions of the enormous San Luis Valley make this possible. Five-acre lots on the high prairie can be had for five thousand dollars, sometimes less.
Conover
volunteered for a local group trying to prevent homelessness during the bitter winters. He encountered an unexpected diversity: veterans with PTSD, families homeschooling, addicts young and old, gay people, people of color, lovers of guns and marijuana, people with social anxiety
--
most of them spurning charity and aiming, and sometimes failing, to be self-sufficient. And more than a few predicting they'll be the last ones standing when society collapses.
Conover
bought his own five acres and immersed himself for parts of four years in the often contentious culture of the far margins. He found many who dislike the government but depend on its subsidies; who love their space but nevertheless find themselves in each other’s business; who are generous but wary of thieves; who endure squalor but appreciate beauty. In their struggles to survive and get along, they tell us about an America riven by difference where the edges speak more and more loudly to the mainstream."--Jacket.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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