Hippies in Roxbury Grow Richer Yet Hold to 60s Dream
Fifteen years after a Boston magazine profile labeled them a dangerous cult, Mel Lyman's Roxbury commune persists as a self supporting family. Now 72 adults and 39 children, they run a renovation business and own homes across Boston New York Los Angeles a Kansas farm and Martha s Vineyard retreat while maintaining a time warped lifestyle centered on music peace and paradoxes. They published U and I to define themselves and resist recruitment.
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Boston
Roxbury
Fort Avenue
U and I
Eve
New York
Los Angeles
Kansas
Martha’s Vineyard
Woodie Guthrie
George Peper
Connecticut
Itinerary of Excess Travel Gear by Erma Bombeck
The humor piece parodies travel and camping catalogs listing endless necessities from iron weights and hair dryers to portable typewriters and lap computers. It lampoons consumer culture and the impulse to haul every possible gadget on trips, recalling how early trips evolved from pillowcases to full carloads of gear.
Publications list itineraries for disabled travelers
A Knight-Ridder piece reviews LTD Travel a quarterly newsletter by Mariam Allen-Brownson and Mary F. Smith with travel ideas for the disabled and the handicapped. It lists subscription costs and contact details for San Mateo and notes the book Travel for the Disabled by Helen Hecker offering access guides to 500 cities and airports worldwide.
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Mariam Allen-Brownson, Who
Mary F. Smith
Ltd Travel
Harbor Seal Court
San Mateo
Calif
Helen Hecker
Guidebook World Dazzles Travelers with Practical Picks
In travel shelves minds broaden as readers seek reliable guides for lodging weather insurance visas and travel logistics. Highlights include The New York Times Practical Traveler by Paul Grimes The Traveller's Handbook edited by Melissa Shales and The Complete Guide to Bed and Breakfasts Inns & Guesthouses by Pamela Lanier.
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Chicago
St. Thomas
Cannes
Kyoto
Rio de Janeiro
Baedeker
Birnbaum
Fielding
Fisher
Fodor
Frommer
Insight
Lonely Planet
Maverick
Michelin
Mobil
Sierra Club
New York Times
Paul Grimes
Times Books
Grimes
The
Traveller's Handbook
Melissa Shales
William Heinemann
Britain
Pamela Lanier
John Muir Publications
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Suzanne Wetlaufer
Associated Press
Lyman
Jessie Benton
Mel Lyman
San Francisco
Haight Ashbury
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Avatar
God
Messiah
Peper
Europe
Right
Wit’s End
By Erma Bombeck
Amsterdam
Harlan
Mr. T
Yogi Berra
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Twin Peaks Press
Portland
Ore
Alfred Borcover
Chicago Tribune
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