Film documents birth of Vt. commune in the ‘60s

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – A Vermont documentary filmmaker is touring the state with a labor of love that has been over half a century in the making.

“Far Out: Life On & After the Commune” traces the story of both filmmaker Charles Light and a group of friends as they leave the city to set up two organic farming communes in southern Vermont and Western Massachusetts in the late ‘60s. The film examines their lives and their pivotal role in creating the nation’s no anti-nuclear movement…

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