June 1975 Page 1 1 "Our Promised Land," Soutbern Exposure, Vol. II, No. 2 & 3,225 pages, $3.50 ($8 for four issue subscription). P.O. Box 230 Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 The South is one of the last regions in the country where the land is still acknowledged to be the foundation of all life. There are closer ties to an agrarian past ttrin in other areas. A large percentage of the population still clings to their rural iand. It is one of the few places where urban sprawl has not completely taken over. At least not yet. As in so many things, the South is taking steps toward the same destructive acts that the rest of the country has already made. Yet at the same time, there are projects and individuals in the South which could help establish directions for the nationThe issue includes 65 pages of research information on ownership of Southern land. The growth of agribusiness and oil, coal and tiinber companies is documented. Feature articles describe a 5,7OO acre cooperative family community in Georgia, North Carolina's Graham Center, where Southern poor farmers are being raught organic farming techniques, the loss of black-owned land, Appalachian Mountain development, Indian lands, urban alternatives. ( Steve Hoffius, Carologue) Local Energy, Bolinas Hearsay News Shelter Publications P.O. Box 179 Bolinas, Ca.94924 First issue just out. About hometown energy, "about production of our physical basics food, shelter; heat/ power/mechanics as close to home as possible." Contents include: Meet your Neighbors, Tide Tables, Bob and His Friend, Gardening on the Pacific Slopes, Bolinas Energy, Bob & Sabena's Windmill, Buildings Without Architects. $2/issue. Ozark Digest P.O. Box 549 Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 $5/yr. From the same people who produced the Ozark Access catalogs (which are still available, and one of the best regional access catalogs I've seen, $5 a set). Some contents: The Basic Urban/ Rural Conflict; Planning a Child's Garden; a really nice monthly calendar; Ozark Drinking Water Still Pure; Monument at Buffalo River is One Man's Gift to Ozarks. Topopbilia, A Study of Enaironmental Perception, Attitudes & Values, Yi-Fu Tuan, Prentice Hall, 95.50. Topophilia or "love of place," traces the borderland between perception and environment through discussions of maps, ethnocentrism, visitor and native, challenge of harsh environments, cyclical time and linear time, the automobile city' Los Angeles. . . . "The earth's surface is highly varied. Even a casual acquaintance with its physical geography and teeming life forms telis us much. But the wivs in which people perceive and evaluate that surface are far more varied. No two persons see the same reality. No two social groups make precisely the same evaluation of the environment. The scientific view itself is culture-bound-one possible perspective among many." An Eoeryday History of Somezubere, as written down by Ray Raphael, Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, fi7.95. A very nice informal history of people and places in Northern California. Including natural history. Fine pen and ink illustrations. ( L.D.) Briarpdtch Reztiew, a journal of right livelihood & sharing-based economics 330 Ellis St. San Francisco, Ca. 941O2 "Briarpatch society consists of people learning to live with joy in the cracks. And especially, if you see yourself as part of a group that is more committed to "learning how the world works" than to acquiring possessions and status, then you must be a briar." Content-wise, Briarpatch reminds me of Vonulife, which was published until recently between Grants pass, Oregon and north of San Francisco, as a vehicle of communication hetween local nomadics. The briarpatch feels and looks almost hobbit or Brer Rabbit{ike: a kid's neighborhood mimeo newsletter grown up and done in water colors. Good nitch. Eartb Geograpby Booklet, 12, t3, 1.4 Io Publications, $3.50 370 Mitchell Rd. Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 These three issues, Economics, Technology & Celestial Influence; Regions & Locales; and Space, through poems, interviews, essays, photos, journals, circumscribe a sense of place recognizable by both poet and scientist. ". . . in terms of efficient and elegant associations of natural systems, the sort that men are going to have to, and want to, live in the long run (if there's going to be a condition of harmonious growth rather than outrageous growth) requires this kind of knowledge, that people have to learn a sense of region, and what is possible within a region, rather than indefinitely assuming that a kind of promiscuous distribution of goods and Iong range rransportation is always going to be possible . . . since the energy resources apparenrly won't be there, quite likely won't be there." (Cary Snyder, from interview) Maine Times 41 Main St. Topsham, Maine 04086 This unique, one-man-started, environmental issues (mostly) newspaper you can find quoted all around the-country, even though it is predominantly about Maine. Eartb Journal Minnesota Geographic Society 1501 S.4th St. Minneapolis, Minn. 5 5404 A bi-monthly with some emphasis on the North Counrry. From geography to the tao and back to plants and g.ogi" phy; living on a small planet. $i/yr, 50d an issue. Foxfire Projects IDEAS 1785 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20036 There are over 20 magazines produced in high schools around the country more or less modeled after the Foxfire, Rabun Gap-Nacoochee high school format: transcribed interviews with people carrying on regional or rural traditions. The concept is broadened to inciude urban environments with such publications as Cityscape, produced by Western High School in Washington, D.C. For listing of all projects, write to IDEAS. Place Magazine P.O. Box 2708 Menlo Park, Ca.94O25 No longer publishing; back issue may still be available; the three or four issues I saw were excellent attempts to define regional sensitivities, love of place; as Rolling Stone called it, "l'he Natictnal Geograpbic of the counter culture." High Country News 14O N Seventh St. Lander, Wyo.8252O $10/yr. A unique blend of environmental issues affecting Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, and sensitivity to defining an area's common concerns, traditions, unique life support systems. Continued on page l2
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