Famous Long Ago Collection
Ray Mungo’s Famous Long Ago (1970) and Steve Diamond’s What the Trees Said (1971) are classic visions of late 1960s counterculture and of life in New England communes. The communes on which Mungo and Diamond settled, Packer Corner and the Montague Farm, became the center of what might be considered a single extended community, embracing the Wendell Farm and Johnson Pasture and Tree Frog Farm in Vermont. The Farmers themselves were, and remain, a diverse group, including photographers, novelists, and poets, artists, actors, and activists.
An umbrella collection, the Famous Long Ago Archive contains a growing number of collections relating to the communes at Montague Farm, Packer Corners, Johnson Pasture, Wendell Farm, and Tree Frog Farm. These range from the papers of Steve Diamond, Raymond Mungo, and Jonathan Maslow to Randy Kehler and Betsy Corner (the latter of whom lived at Montague Farm), the records of the Liberation News Service, the Alternative Energy Coalition, and Musicians United for Safe Energy, to the photographic collections of Roy Finestone and Stephen Josephs. View all the Famous Long Ago Collections.
Collections include:
- Alternative Energy Coalition Records
- Antinuclear Activism Collection
- Susan Dalsimer Papers
- Stephen Diamond Papers
- Roy Finestone Collection
- Green Mountain Post Films Collection
- Anna Gyorgy Papers
- Stephen Josephs Collection
- Randy Kehler Papers
- Steve Lerner Papers
- Liberation News Service Records
- Jon Maslow Papers
- Kevin McVeigh Papers
- Montague Nuclear Power Station Collection
- Raymond Mungo Papers
- Musicians United For Safe Energy Collection
- Carl Oglesby Papers
- Stephen L. Saltonstall Collection
- Peter Simon Collection
- Paul Williams Papers