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Quarry Hill Creative Center | |
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| Motto(s): "To enjoy life and appreciate beauty and the esthetic of the creative person; to support and protect children from abuse and neglect; not to hunt or fish or kill animals." | |
  Quarry Hill Creative Center Location in Vermont | |
| Coordinates: 43°55′25″N 72°49′16″W / 43.9236°N 72.8211°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Vermont |
| City | Rochester |
| Corporation | Lyman Hall, Inc. |
| Founded by | Irving Fiske and Barbara Hall Fiske |
| Area | |
| • Total | 200 acres (80 ha) |
| Population (1990s)[1] | |
| • Total | 90 (full-time) |
Quarry Hill Creative Center, in Rochester, Vermont, is Vermont's oldest alternative living group or community.[2] It was founded in 1946 by Irving Fiske, a playwright, writer, and public speaker; and his wife, Barbara Hall Fiske, an artist and one of the few female cartoonists of the Golden Age of Comic Books.
- ^ Associated Press "Vermont 'hippie commune' co-founder dies at 94," Salon (Apr. 29, 2014).
- ^ Hartmann, Thom. The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (New York: Three Rivers Press / Random House, 2004), pp. 309-11, 315 — calls Quarry Hill "The oldest "intentional community in Vermont"