Vision of the Carcross Community’s Future
A hopeful essay from 1978
The Lost Whole Moose Catalogue – the title is a play on “The Last Whole Earth Catalog”, a 1960s collection of essays and instructions published in similar format – was edited and laid out in the Brown House and library at CCEC in the summer of 1978, by a group called “The Rock and Roll Moose Meat Collective.”
 Scanned images provided courtesy of Lost Moose Publishing in Whitehorse. (Sold to B.C.’s Harbour Publishing in 2004) |
Two of its 112 large pages were devoted to the Carcross Community. Unfortunately, it did not hit the bookshelves till January 1979, by which time the vision of the future had been overtaken by events. The school closed on June 30 of that year.Those two pages are presented below. To see much larger versions, click on either image.
The book had been re-issued, in slightly smaller page size but is now out of print. |
(Excerpt from a February 1979 review of the Lost Whole Moose Catalogue in the Vancouver newspaper Georgia Straight)Hippies Unite to Save the Yukon by Bob Mercer Where have all the flower children gone? Most of them may have dried up and withered away, but the hardiest of the breed still flourish out in the wild and it looks like they have put down permanent roots. They have done a turn on Horatio Alger’s advice to “Go west, young man!” only now that should read, “Go north, young person!” The hippies are alive and well and living in the Yukon. |
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