How many of our parents move to some place—some dreamhouse—with some vision of a new life in the new place, and move the family with them, hoping it works out for the kids? Three stories on this theme.
Prologue. Commune Dreamhouse.Host Ira Glass talks to Amanda, who's 16 and lives with her mom in a Christian commune in Chicago. (5 minutes)
Act One.
In 1976, Meema Spadola's parents moved the family from Manhattan to rural Maine with a vision of making a self-sufficient, rural homestead. It didn't work out that way.
Act Two. Blue Sky Dreams.