Introduction The pages that follow are a story and a handbook; a 'how-it-was" and "how-it-can-be" book. It's a link connecting ideals and choices from alternative lifestyles of the sixties, to the lifestyles that are evolving in this new millennium. It begins with the story of a bright, creative and well-educated suburban girl from the North Shore of Chicago, as she travels through the "detours" of the late sixties that led to The Back to the Land Movement. The book not only describes how many of us arrived at our rustic, antique homes in the country, but how we survived the surprising and...