Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune

By Tom Fels, MA ’83. University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. A follow-up to Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond (2008), Buying the Farm is the story of Montague Farm, an iconic ’60s commune first founded in 1968 near Amherst, Mass. Fels’ latest book continues to follow the lives of the Montague community members even after the commune’s disbandment in the early 21st century.