Book Club will meet at the home of Anne Wiebe and Vincent Hill, 1:00 pm on Sunday, January 12. We will share a potluck lunch and discuss A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears), by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. Copies are available at Austin Public Library, Amazon, and Bookfinder.
Summary: A group of libertarians launch the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and eliminate its government. When they descended on Grafton NH, public funding for services went away and state and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town’s thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton’s neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid and ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods.