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Poetry

emigres

By Richard WilliamsMarch 1976

Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Doing It

If you are building your own home and you’ve decided to dig a well for your water supply, I have a bit of advice for you: Get a dowser.

By Mike MathersMarch 1976

Poetry

Selected Poems

By Jaki SheltonMarch 1976

Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Other Blueprints

Many people are looking to methods of building other than the conventional stud frame — post and beam, pole house, domes, log cabins, A-frames, and many owner-built combinations.

By Stephen MartinMarch 1976

Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Designing and building your own home can be a vital step in taking control over your life, in taking responsibility for your own actions, in becoming free. It can do this on different levels, in different ways.

By Robert RoskindMarch 1976

Poetry