Oral history interview with Lucie Malinski

Oral history interview with Lucie Malinski

Lucie Malinski speaks of growing up in Springfield, Vermont in the 1960s, how she was affected by the Cold War, Kennedy's assassination, the Civil Rights Movements, the Vietnam War, the impact of television, and how that contrasted with her parents' experience in World War II. She goes on to describe her religious upbringing, its impact on her, especially during her freshman year at the University of Vermont, drug use on the campus, and meeting Rev. Leon DeVoid, founder of His Church, a Christian commune in Burlington, Vermont. She talks of her introduction to the "Jesus People," her spiritual rebirth, moving into the commune in 1973, a radio show by Dale Yancy, youth minister of the Community Bible Church in South Burlington, Christian music, and disrupting a lecture by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Lucie continues with a discussion of daily life in the commune, surveillance by the F.B.I., gender roles, and the relationship of the commune to local churches and local community.

5 January 2016

AudioFile1970s-25

MP3

Audio Files

Springfield (Vt.)

Burlington (Vt.)

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

Blofson, Kate

Malinski, Lucie, 1952-

3 hr., 18 min., 34 sec.

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