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A Better Way to Teach: the Biden Administration Creates Opportunities for Deepening Democracy in the Classroom
Strange, Jason. “A Better Way to Teach: the Biden Administration Creates Opportunities for Deepening Democracy in the Classroom.” The Progressive, 4 February 2021.
Reading and Learning on the Appalachian Bohemian Homestead
Strange, Jason. “Reading and Learning on the Appalachian Bohemian Homestead” (excerpt from Shelter from the Machine). Literary Hub, March 20, 2020.
When the Economy Turns Upside down, Appalachian Homesteaders Might Have the Answers
Strange, Jason. “When the Economy Turns Upside down, Appalachian Homesteaders Might Have the Answers.” Lexington Herald Leader, 15 July 2020.

Shelter from the Machine by Jason G. Strange
Call Number: 307.7209 S897s 2020 - BC Scholarship Collection (3rd Floor)
Publication Date: 2020
"You're either buried with your crystals or your shotgun." That laconic comment captures the hippies-versus-hicks conflict that divides, and in some ways defines, modern-day homesteaders. It also reveals that back to-the-landers, though they may seek lives off the grid, remain connected to the most pressing questions confronting the United States today. Jason Strange shows where homesteaders fit, and don't fit, within contemporary America. Blending history with personal stories, Strange visits pig roasts and bohemian work parties to find people engaged in a lifestyle that offers challenge and fulfillment for those in search of virtues like self-employment, frugality, contact with nature, and escape from the mainstream. He also lays bare the vast differences in education and opportunity that leave some homesteaders dispossessed while charting the tensions that arise when people seek refuge from the ills of modern society--only to find themselves indelibly marked by the system they dreamed of escaping.