Handmade Lives: A Collective Memoir

Handmade Lives is a cultural cross-section of a time and place still evolving: the legacy of the love generation.

Inside the handmade houses, of Canyon California 1967-74, the flower children fully flowered and grew their own rebellious and poetic children, who turned away from the unrestrained experiments of their parents, yet took their understanding from them.

Handmade Lives is a collection of 44 intimate narratives, which detail the life of a small California hill town, that burned and rebuilt, that fought the water company and won, and in the process made worldwide news in the late 1960s.