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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – Envelope: white 9”x12” printed with red ink with graphic of a tree growing out of a skeleton in the ground with shaman drumming under the tree. The text is Backbone—The Rockies plus table of contents. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – Introductory sheet—Are the Rockies Too Big to Worry About? A sensate introduction to these vast mountains, their culture and politics as the bedrock & wellspring for the continent by Peter Berg and Linn (Freeman) House. Includes a table of contents for the bundle. Robert Curry, Thomas Birch and Roger Dunsmuir are credited as contributing editors. On the reverse is a description of Planet Drum as an “explorers guide for planet people” non-profit publishing newsletters, books and bundles. It includes this review by Books West, “ One of the most imaginative publications going is not a single publication, but bundles of them issued together as Planet Drum. Consisting of articles, maps, graphics, posters and poetry…Planet Drum is concerned with the conscious process of reclaiming one’s regional home (and the planet as a whole) from the ravages of inappropriate technology. It is decentralist, mutually respectful, ecologically tuned.” 11”x17 ½” Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – Wild Idea…Wild Hope, A collection of: journal entries by Beth Chadwick, poems by Gary Paul Nabhan, and “talking” by Roger Dunsmuir, Tom Birch and Bruce Bugbee. 16 page 4”x9.5” pamphlet with painting & drawings by Skylark. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – The Eye in the Rock, a poem by John Haines with pictographs. 11”x8.5” single sheet folded in half. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – A House at 8000’—A Journal by Paul Shippee. Drawings and narrative explore spirit and practicalities while building a solar heated house with attention to site and surroundings. Folded 9.5”x23” sheet. Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – Rocky Mountain Lifetime, An inspiring perpetual circular calendar illustrating the seasonal simultaneity of various features indigenous to the Rockies including plants, animals, weather, culture, etc. as they occur during the year. 22”x17” Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – Rockies—the Source: Soil and Water, A map of North America with the Rockies, that illustrates the volume and reach of water & soil nutrients originating in the mountains. On the reverse Rockies—the Source: Forests, A Community of Trees and People in the Slocan Valley, by the Slocan Valley Community. This report from British Columbia discusses the history and issues to be resolved to defend and maintain the valley from extra-regional logging interests. 17”x22” Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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Planet Drum Bundle #6, 1979 – Backbone—the Rockies, A map with the Rockies and the Andes depicted as backbones. On the reverse Backbone—the Rockies, a conversation between Peter Berg and geologist Robert Curry with a map drawn by Green Man Co-operative. 11”x17” Digital image courtesy Lincoln Cushing / Docs Populi
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