Oral history interview with Emily and Rick Hausman

Oral history interview with Emily and Rick Hausman

Emily and Rick Hausman begin the interview with descriptions of their family backgrounds and meeting at the Farm and Wilderness Camps in Plymouth, Vermont. Emily speaks of growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and her family connection with Quakerism, graduation from Earlham College in 1969, and her work as counselor at the Farm and Wilderness Camps. Rick describes growing up in New York City, and, from age nine, spending summers at the Farm and Wilderness Camps where he eventually worked as counselor and then director of the Flying Cloud Camp until 1970. The bulk of the interview relates to Rick’s work as director of the Orleans County Council of Social Agencies ( OCCSA) in Newport, Vermont, reflections on its contributions, poverty in the Northeast Kingdom, services to Earth People’s Park and other communal groups, and tensions between Vermont residents and newcomers in some communities, with related anecdotal references.

15 July 2015

AudioFile1970s-44

MP3

Audio File

Northeast Kingdom (Vt.)

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

Rowell, Leslie

Hausman, Emily

Hausman, Rick, 1945-

South Ryegate (Vt.)

1 hr., 47 min., 21 sec.

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