Oral history interview with Joyce Cheney

Oral history interview with Joyce Cheney

Joyce Cheney speaks of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, attending the University of Michigan, and her first visit to Vermont working at a Quaker camp in Plymouth, Vermont. She then discusses her move to Vermont to work at the Brandon Training School and her introduction to the gay community in Vermont. In the bulk of the interview, Cheney relates in great detail her life at the Redbird Collective, including its formation, its mission, the leadership and decision making dynamics, community work, including the rape crisis hotline and the battered women's shelter, and the Collective's relationship to the greater lesbian community in Burlington, Vermont. She also describes some of the art and building projects at the Collective, the nudist culture at both the Quaker camp and the Collective, and attending the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.

22 September 2015

AudioFile1970s-22

MP3

Audio File

Hinesburg (Vt.)

Burlington (Vt.)

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

Blofson, Kate

Cheney, Joyce

2 hrs., 27 min., 06 sec.

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