by Raven
Several of the posts I’m posting this week did very well on Facebook–and covered some unique subjects.
From East Wind, comes a post about a ‘breakfast taco’–and the ‘greenwashing’ of ‘farm to table’ and how East Winders are “living outside of the capitalist system”.
This post did okay on Facebook. It only got two likes but it got a bit over a hundred views.
At Twin Oaks, it was about keeping their cars clean. I snapped this photo when I visited there briefly in January. I thought it was interesting but I didn’t know the context.
The comments I got (which I show below in Facebook’s messed up order–read the middle, then the top) reveal what was behind this card.
This post did very, very well, especially considering that it was just one picture. It got nine likes, eight loves, three comments (the ones above), a share, and a whopping three hundred and forty-three views.
The folks at Serenity Solidarity seem to always be doing some pretty important and impressive (to me at least) stuff. Unfortunately, it doesn’t translate into a lot of views.
It didn’t do terribly, with three likes and three loves (and one of the loves was actually from Serenity Solidarity) but only ninety-three views. Still, this is some good work and I wish more people saw it.
Finally, East Wind turns fifty this year! They want to have a big bash, but…
Fortunately, this did very, very well, with eight likes, two cares, and a love, and a good two hundred and eighty-six views. I hope this translates into some cash for them.
This is only the beginning. Expect more about East Wind’s fiftieth as it gets closer.
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hi. Gerri here. Happy anniversary, East Wind. By now the collective memory might not remember but I was part of your beginning. Kat, Jesse, Velveteen and I left Twin Oaks in … I believe it was March, 1973 to go to White River Junction, Vermont to join Woody ? Ransom? To make a successful commune on his property. It lasted a couple of weeks before we all knew it wasn’t working. In the meantime Herman Patt had reached out to Twin Oaks to get help with building his commune in West Brookfield, MA, so we went there instead of going home. Brought Eric, Tommy, Siggy and Josh with us from Vermont. In Mass we were joined by Jack, Lorraine, Debra and Keith and others. It was there that the community was named. For one night it was Norazian (selected by a random finger find in a paper phone book), but by the next morning the second place name took over and the name was changed to East Wind. I left in about September to go back to TO to have a baby, so in 1974 I missed the move to Boston. But as I understand it, Jack found the land in Missouri and the rest was history. Best wishes for 50 more
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Thanks for that bit of history, Gerri. It’s good to know.
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