When Bernie Went Back to the Land
While free love, weed, and tie-dye might not have been his bag, even the young Bernard Sanders of Brooklyn, NY, tried a life of living off the land. It didn’t work out.
Illustration by Rose Wong.
In 1964, inspired by youthful treks from the big city to the green outdoors as well as by a formative visit to an Israeli kibbutz, Brooklyn native Bernard Sanders and his college girlfriend Deborah Messing purchased 85 acres in the most rural part of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom for $2,500. There they turned an old sugarhouse […]
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