Oral history interview with Barbara Nolfi

Oral history interview with Barbara Nolfi

Barbara Nolfi describes going to college at University of California, Berkeley, the effect of the Vietnam War, being exposed to the Free Speech Movement, and involvement in the U.C. Berkeley teaching assistant strike through her husband, Jim Nolfi. She goes on to describe moving to Vermont to help found the Earthworks Commune in Franklin, Vermont, with Bruce Taub and Mary Pat Palmer, on land owned by Jane Wheelwright. The bulk of the interview revolves around life on the commune and the difficulties commune members faced adjusting to life on the land, gender roles, runaways, and relations with the local community. She finishes the interview by describing her development as a midwife and the concept of Free Vermont, "free healthcare, good food that was inexpensive, cheap newspaper."

10 September 2015

AudioFile1970s-5

MP3

Audio File

Franklin (Vt.)

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

Blofson, Kate

Nolfi, Barbara, 1942-

Burlington (Vt.)

2 hr., 25 min., 56 sec.

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