Corn Festival
In 1970, Wanda and a small group of friends leave California and move to North Freedom, Wisconsin to start a communal farm. They try to grow organic veggies, renovate an old cabin, and get gigs playing country music at a local bar. But as each person experiences some form of backlash, they scatter in different directions leaving Wanda alone on the farm.After five decades, the divisions that Wanda and her friends confront threaten the very existence they thought they were leaving to their children.Paperback version is available at the bookstore Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 20008. Or by ordering:www.politics-prose.com/product/corn-festival-melissalairdReading Corn Festival, I could vividly picture the excitement of growing up in the American counterculture of the late 1960s. Melissa Laird is an essential voice of her era and has given us a book full of wisdom for today.--Kassa Overall, Grammy-nominated musician and