In 1978, a group of idealistic and enthusiastic SUNY Plattsburgh students had just acquired the former farmland that was to become the New Land Trust, with a vision of creating a community of ecologically minded co-conspirators in cooperative living. The Barn was in rough shape, but it was their first permanent abode, after several had spent the summer in a tipi and other shelters. Here are some anonymous entries from the "Barn Book" journal, dated October 1978, written as