Oral history interviews with Annie Gaillard

Oral history interviews with Annie Gaillard

In her first interview, on 13 April 2015, Annie Gaillard discusses growing up in a conservative family in Washington, D.C., and the various schools she attended, including Echo Hill Outdoor School, which was particularly influential in her life. She also describes her involvement in Outward Bound in northern Vermont and her love of nature, leading to her studies in environmental education. After high school, she moved to Alaska, and then returned to Vermont to study at the Sterling College Grassroots Project. She also spent at semester at the University of Oregon, and later in the University of Vermont Environmental Education Program.

In her second interview, on 20 April 2015, Annie relates her introduction to the Findhorn Community in Scotland, where she visited in March, 1977, application of the knowledge she gained there to her life in Craftsbury, Vermont, and her return to Findhorn in 1979. She also speaks of her involvement in protesting Seabrook and Vermont Yankee nuclear power plants and in the anti-nuclear movement generally, and her enrollment in the Goddard College Summer Ecology Program. She speaks also involved about her involvment with the Buffalo Mountain Food Coop in Hardwick, Vermont, and, in 1980, her work at an organic vegetable farm, also in Hardwick, where she met Louis Pulver, a Vietnam veteran, who became her partner, and co-owner of Surfing Veggie Farm in Walden, Vermont.

April 2015

AudioFile1970s-2-3

MP3

Audio file

Walden (Vt.)

Hardwick (Vt.)

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

Rowell, Leslie

Gaillard, Annie

Walden (Vt.)

2 hr., 22 min., 18 sec.

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