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Going Up the Country : When the Hippies, Dreamers, Kristen Loesch Gilbert finds that believing andHow the counterculture movement changed Vermont and America Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia tinged narrative, and part clear eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of