Why Was MOTHER EARTH NEWS Magazine Founded?

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by Adobestock/Voyagerix

“How did you ever get the idea for MOTHER EARTH NEWS?”

If I’ve heard that question once during the past ten years, I’ve heard it ten thousand times. And my answer is always the same: “Given the way I was raised, it would have been far more surprising if I hadn’t wound up devoting my life to something like it.”

The Boy Is Father to the Man

I was born in a small north-central Indiana farming community on July 21, 1937. It was a very good place and time to be birthed if your destiny somehow involved the launching of a back-to-basics, you-can-take-charge-of-your-life, this-planet-is-all-we’ve-got magazine.

For one reason, not too many babies were being made back then in the closing days of the Great Depression. And so my age group has always been in far greater demand than have the flood tide of World War II children and the other burgeoning waves of humanity which have followed. More doors have been opened for us, each of us has tended to move up more quickly in his or her chosen field, and we have been generally more “successful” faster while retaining more of our individual identity than have those packed into the masses born later.

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