Oral history interview with Don Hooper

Oral history interview with Don Hooper

Don Hooper speaks of his childhood in Fairfield County, Connecticut, of his teenage years in Sri Lanka, and his college years at Harvard. He also speaks of avoiding the draft by entering the Peace Corps and his time in Botswana at the Shashe River School in Tonota. He then speaks of returning from Botswana after three years and entering the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, where he learned of the Community College of Vermont and its alternative way of teaching. He describes moving to Brookfield, Vermont, while working for CCV, communally buying a run-down farm and learning farming from his neighbors. He finishes by describing goat farming, the evolution of the Montpelier Farmers' Market, a natural food store in Barre, Squash Valley Trucking Company, and his entry into Vermont politics.

3 September 2015

AudioFile1970s-12

MP3

Audio File

Brookfield (Vt.)

Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Blofson, Kate

Hooper, Don, ǂd 1945-

Brookfield (Vt.)

3 hr., 49 min., 3 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4209