The Village
From Changeling Venue
IC Info:
EarthHome Village is a primitive technology intentional community in the Appalachia Mountains founded by a group of Pagans in the early 1950’s wanting to leave behind the restrictive world of that time and create their own outside of persecution and bigotry of the times.
Education and upbringing were strict and focused to the needs of her Village, where children grew up unencumbered by the demands and chains of our technologically based society. They can read and write, and speaks an odd dialectal language of her community, unknown anywhere else. English is a 'second language' there.
Those born there, enjoy the close-knit upbringing of an involved community, where all parents raised all children as if they were their own. Much compassion and empathy is learned in this upbringing, caring for friends and neighbors as fellow family members in a large extended family community.
Elders of the Village observe all the children, and where a child has talent, they are taught and encouraged to learn more, complementing natural tendancies and skills, with life long skills and teaching in all facets of all domestic arts and sciences nessessary to run an extended Village.
OOC Info:
EarthHome Village is a primitive technology, Pagan intentional community I’ve created. I’ve located it somewhere in the Appalachia Mountains but with no real location ooc’ly unless it becomes needed. I loosely based it on ideas from http://www.earthaven.org and other communes such as The Farm http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/ from my research, as well as my original thoughts of using the social experiment aspects of the movie “The Village” for inspiration.
The main purpose of this Intentional Community was one of the pioneering communities of what decades later, became common in the Hippie Movement. However the most important difference to note, is that this community was founded in the oppression of the early 50's intolerant religious community. At a time when even Judaism wasn’t accepted easily and carried significant social stigma, these Pagans and free thinkers retreated from that oppression and were determined to raise their children in a loving village, of freedom of thought & beliefs, without judgment of which ones were ‘right’.
Contact:
ST’s needing more info, or people with serious inquiries about background ties to this Village, please inquire directly to me at RebaTheHub@yahoo.com for more complete information.
