ROOTWORKS.

Posted on May 31, 2010
Filed Under 1970s, 1980s, Craft, Fashions, Home, Nature, The West, Women

Natalie Barney – crafts cabin

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So much to take in — the Rootworks archive. Hundreds of photographs by Ruth Mountaingrove who created the lesbian-feminist community in southern Oregon.
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Rootworks, was established in the 1970s by Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove, when both women were in their 50s. “The philosophy was that we would live without men, separate from the patriarchal world,” Ruth told me in the late ’90s. “That is still pretty much the idea.”

“…As part of that dream, women experimented with new ways to live and work together – and with all sorts of activities and rituals, from house-building projects and collective gardening to the sacred circle.” – Linda Long
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The best part of the dream for me would be the all-purpose crafts cabin named ‘Natalie Barney’.

read more about Rootworks via Queerest Places
images via Ruth Mountaingrove papers – University of Oregon