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Art Kopecky
Manhattan-born Arthur Kopecky received
a degree in history from the City
College of NY, studied Chinese language
at Columbia University, worked for
Citi Bank, and drove a cab. He has
spent hundreds of hours on the New
York subways. With Bobbi he traveled
in Europe several times. In 1967,
packed into a VW bug, he changed
coasts and headed for graduate school
at UC Berkeley. The allure of the
new developing culture was too much.
First taking a job with the Post
Office, Art then joined Pepe and
Dennis for travels across the US
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lavishly
carpeted Wonder bread truck they called
the Mind Machine. Their first
communal scene developed at Woody's
house in Bolinas. In 1971 after more
travels with the truck, the Pride
family settled at New Buffalo in New
Mexico where his natural aptitude
for farming flourished. After the
commune was taken over eight years
later, Kopecky and family worked at
Bauer Brothers Dairy in Nebraska before
moving back to Northern California
where he worked for five more years
as a dairy herdsman. His twelve years
in the back to the land movement and
six years on large modern family dairies
gives him a deep knowledge of farming.
Art switched to fine furniture building
and then to many aspects of construction,
getting a contractor's license in
1987. He and Sandy and boys Jason
and Emil, followed their homesteading
instincts and purchased a property
in rural Sebastopol, where they built
a house and extensive gardens. Kopecky
is also involved with the Redwood Empire Bonsai
Society. Now sixty he credits physical work for
his strength and optimism for his youthfulness. |
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