A Walden Two Experiment; The first five years of Twin Oaks Community by Kinkade, Kathleen, and Skinner, B F (Foreword by) - 1973

New York: William Morrow & Company Inc., 1973. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light soiling. Lower front jacket closed tear. Tiny upper jacket spine chip.. 1 Black cloth, gray paper over boards. xii, 271 p.; 22 cm. Founded in Virginia in 1967 by the author and others, Twin Oaks Community was inspired by B.F. Skinner's "Walden Two" Utopian proposal. Members embraced technology, experimented but built structure within, worked for the freedom to go in other directions, encouraged social interaction while retaining measures of privacy. Reviewing the first 5 years includes the struggle to build both community and its living and working physical structures, while wrestling with the facts of children, sex, marriage, women's liberation, health care, automobile maintenance, visitors, pets, non-communal neighbors, and revolution within. A practical, philosophical realization of a Utopian dream toward comfort, happiness, dignity. Twin Oaks continues still more than 4 decades later.