Crosen, Jane

Robert G. Blakesley has lived three lives in one. Born at the height of the Great Depression, he grew up in New England, son of a Congregational Minister. While still in High School he became interested in intentional community living as a result of summer jobs as a staffer in a conference hotel on Star Island in the Isles of Shoals, ten miles out from Portsmouth, NH. Blakesley followed his father to Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary, but left Union after a semester, finding himself agnostic. Turning to city and regional planning, he moved to Portland, Oregon, and wrote reports to...