June 1976 RAIN Page 7 ln·formation Springs Rural Printed Vehicles Odd that it is often easier to find out what is happening in Washington, DC, or East Asia than what's happening down the street-or, in the case of people that relate to valleys, mountains, creekswhat's happrJning down the road or creek a piece. Without any overall federal program, or an underground conspirqcy, in the last few years many- I suspect it is_hundreds- of small ne·wsletters, newspapers, , have sprung·up. The newsletters, sometimes mimeographed a'nd hand delivered, represent a curious reaction to the commu_nications era. Often started by people who dropped out of cities, they seem to be representative of a stage of dev.elopment in rural community building: a so/( outreaching,' sharing hand or ditto, and simple print, wanting to share problems and delights, and define what it is to live some parti-, cular place by increasing the range of communicators and take a stand: our roots are here- what a'nd who is her_e? (SJ) ..,.•~12 .. " · ·. ~~" .. ~~l~ ~.If:. ,t.. ~ ,, ·[ Borrowed Times Bo,x 1311 Missoula, MT 59801 $4/yr., bi-monthly Co-op Contacts Box 19142 Portland, OR 97219 Country Women Box 51 - Albina, CA 95410 Deadwood Ditto Box_.-32 Deadwood, OR_97430 'f!" .. .. ~ r.;~~~~~ --~· Hexam Creek Notes 82234 Weiss Rd. Creswell, OR 97426 $6/yr. Landwfi.rd Ho! Rt. 1 Scio, OR .97374 The Mendocino Grapevine 1484 S. Main St. Willits, CA 95490 $7/52 weekly issues North Country Constitution Box 4177 Arcata, CA 95521 • North Country Star Box 24081 Oakland, CA 94618 $10/10 monthly issues· North Okanogan Aid . 2906 32nd Vernon, BC, Canada Pot Walloper 18130 Hwy. 36 Blachly, OR 97412 Rural Tribune Washington County Community Action Organization 546 E. Baseline Hillsboro, OR 97123 Free monthly Scatt;red Showers/Partial Clearings Box 568. Hoquiam, WA 98550 The Shasta Union Box 537 Mt. Shasta, CA 96067 $4/12 monthly issues Smallholder General Delivery Angente, BC, Canada Sonoma County Stump 8468 Trenton Rd. Foresville, CA 95436 $7 /yr., bi-weekly Wayside Journal Box 163 Centralia, WA 98531 Western· Slopes. Connection 408 Broad St. Nevada City, CA 95959 $3.50/26 issues White Mountain Mirror 1030 N.W. Roanoke Bend, OR 97701 Rural Resources & Information Rt. 2, Box 142B · , Colville, WA 99114 1 An informal rural network. Sometimes publish Rural Resour_ces & Information, working on rural apprenticeship program, and help sponsor annual harvest and barter festival. Communities/Seriatim Box li7 McMinnville, OR 97128 Communities, for several years a link between communes in the United States, is making a transidon to a more general journal dealing with the utopia science fiction ideas presented in Ernest Callenbach 's Ecotopia. They are also sponsoring, along with the Alpha farm and Ananda, a rural communities coQference. (Alpha Farm, Box 465, Mapleton, OR 97455.) , • Oregon-Washington 'Farmers Union Willamette Building, Suite 35 215 Front St., N.E. Salem, OR $1/yr. A good newspaper for small farmers. These are the same people who are supporting the Oregon Corporate .Farming Restriction Referendum:. Tilth/Alternative Market ,Newsletter Box 2382 Olympia, WA 98507 The single best source of information on news and developments and tools and ideas about small scale .agriculture, cooperative ventures in the Northwest. Serves a vital link. All for just $5/yr. . Continued on page 8
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