6.7 New Traditions: From Chivarees to Boogies

Research About the Counterculture

Back-to-the-Landers in Comptche, early 1970s. Photo courtesy of Cosmo Knoebber.

“Dynamite got too expensive,” an old-timer said, and chivarees began to fade from Comptche’s social scene around the time back-to-the-landers were arriving. Comptche has a remarkable pattern of in-migration—migration within a country and out-migration.

As a place, Comptche is …