Oral history interview with Don Mayer

Oral history interview with Don Mayer

Don Mayer describes growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, attending Reform synagogues, and becoming politically active in high school, particularly in anti-war demonstrations. He continued his activism at the University of Illinois, becoming involved in the free speech and draft resistance movement, culminating in turning in his draft card in 1968. He speaks of moving to California and his experience at the People's Park in Berkeley, which led to moving his family Oroville, California, and eventually applying to Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and relocating to Vermont. In the unrecorded portion of the interview, Mayer describes moving to the Dreamers commune in Wolcott, Vermont in 1974, attempting to grow their own food for a year, and becoming involved in wind industry, and the development of the North Wind Power Company in Warren, Vermont, with architect David E. Sellers. He finishes with describing the move to Prickly Mountain, an intentional community in Warren, Vermont.

13 November 2015

AudioFile1970s-14

MP3

Audio File

Wolcott (Vt.)

Warren (Vt.)

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

Blofson, Kate

Mayer, Don, 1949-

ca. 51 minutes

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