Carol Wilder

Living Northern California
1975-1995
A restless Ohio academic moves to Northern California for two remarkable decades, finding success and heartbreak from Big Sur to Mendocino. Time well spent along the way with pathfinders who would transform American culture through politics, philosophy, education and the arts, including Gregory Bateson, Jerry Brown, Daniel Ellsberg, Le Ly Hayslip, Kay Boyle, Sally Gearhart, Kenneth Burke, Heinz von Foerster, Terence Hallinan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brian Willson and Denis Johnson, as well as a visionary crew of techno wizards gathered at Menlo Park’s iconic Dutch Goose pub where they hatch the personal computer revolution.

In vivid and fast-paced prose, Wilder brings
to life this legendary period.
Governor Jerry Brown
Writes with verve and grace.
Michael Krasny, Broadcaster, Author,
Professor
Contains multitudes.
Michael Blecker, Swords to Plowshares
Traveled in all the intertwining circles
that mattered.
Mercilee Jenkins, Playwright, Professor
Carol Wilder is a hell of an original.
Take this rollicking ride up from the sidewalk
through the front door.
William Talen - “Rev. Billy”
The stories in this book warm my hear
remembering that there is so much good
that confronted so much evil.
Keith Mather - “The Presidio 27”
Charged with Mutiny, 1968