Foreclosure; the Start of Mountain Wind Family

Foreclosure on a new home brought Mountain Wind Family into existence. This was the original introduction and images showing how we learned to build log cabins from a bush woman from Alaska who met us in Washington and along with her family taught us the skills we needed to survive the wilderness. Filmed on analogue gear in 1988. Edited with Panasonic editing Deck AG 1950 and an Amiga 500. Removed to digital in 2009. Original song by Crosby Stills Nash and Young was removed because they record for WMG. current song was also used in the original video but in a different place. It is done along with Sony (*purchased original Windham Hill) who still has a contract with YouTube Let me tell you the short/long story of our move to Washington State.
In 1967, Cleveland Ohio, we were good friends with the Shuttleworths who had just started Mother Earth News out of a small house in North Madison Ohio. They had a dream. They shared their dream and we bought into the philosophy but we were too young and naive to understand. Many others were not, or felt that they were
not. Some got real lucky but the times were so very different. We tried over the period of a few years to find our dream of self sufficient living in the country. We didn't succeed for a variety of reasons, but one was NOT that there was no land for us. So we shelved our dream in a place that even we forgot.

....real estate company in Washington... property at199.50 a month. A few years later on, after moving to the Mendocino Coast in another search for "real life", we re-established the dream of finding self sufficiency. and it took another few years to fall upon it, after being deluded into thinking that the Spirit of the land movement was dead. We tried being semi-yuppies without success, after opening and
closing a computer store on the Coast. We bought into a modular home in Woodland California with 1/10 acre of very sun dried ground. At 800 dollars per month mortgage and after months of finding just the right eatery and expresso houses, we gave up in bankruptcy. As quick as a shot in a child's arm we found a real estate company in Washington that was selling remote parcels of property for no money down and 199.50 a month. Being without any other catalyst to take us up
the ladder we felt no remorse at leaving the city to try something new! And we have so far succeeded in doing what we set out to do.

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