Hi there! I recently had a conversation with someone who told me about a book about the early development of intentional communities in the PNW, but unfortunately I can’t find it anywhere online! It’s possible I’m searching by the wrong title name, so I figured I would reach out and see if anyone else recognizes this book.
They told me the book was either called “Finding Home” or “Building Home” and details the early history of settler-colonialism in the Pacific Northwest and how the communities that first formed resembled more commune-style societal organizing. Over time these communities dissolved and collapsed as their members shifted toward more nuclear-family lifestyles, but it’s suggested that the proliferation of intentional communities and communes that persists in the PNW may have its roots in the 1800s.
It’s possible I’m paraphrasing somewhat heavily, but if this is familiar to anyone, please let me know!