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Judson Jerome

Judson Jerome is the author of Families of Eden and is one of the founding members of the Downhill Farm Community in Hancock, Maryland, where he moved with his family after twenty years as a professor of literature at Antioch.

— From December 1979
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

All In Common

What Gets Shared (And What Doesn’t) In Small Communities

Most communal groups in the United States today (of which by far the largest number are urban) are expense-sharing groups, at least as far as such things as groceries, mortgage or rent, taxes, utilities and vehicles used in common are concerned.

January 1979
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