Reason’s Excellent Article on Porcfest 2012 Promotes Keene

by | Jul 6, 2012 | 0 comments

Roger'sReason magazine’s Garrett Quinn has filed this excellent report on his first visit to the Porcupine Freedom Festival:

Every summer since 2004, hundreds of people belonging to and interested in the Free State Project, an effort to move 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire, gather at a remote campground in the northern part of the state for a weeklong event called the Porcupine Freedom Festival. The outdoorsy extravaganza, more commonly known as PorcFest, is one of the biggest libertarian gatherings in the entire country.

The libertarian stereotype of the nerdy, balding, middle-aged white guy goes out the window at PorcFest. The attendees are so diverse, one wonders how organizers managed to get everybody together in the same place without burning the forest down in a fit of rage. If you want to see what happens when you bring together libertarian politicos, voluntaryists, and off-the-grid family farmers that love raw milk for a week to celebrate one of the more quixotic elements of the libertarian movement, then you have to go to PorcFest. (more…)

Porcfest Chronicles C07 Overcoming Public Education

by | Jul 6, 2012 | 2 comments

Porcfest Co-Head Organizer and all around great guy Jason Osborne introduces Brett Veinotte for this talk at the 2012 Porcupine Freedom Festival.  Jake Desyllas joins Brett halfway through for a discussion about entrepreneurship and how it ought to start as early as possible in a persons life.

 

Porcfest Chronicles C06 Where to Live in New Hampshire

by | Jul 4, 2012 | 2 comments

Jody Underwood of the Upper Valley moderates a 2 hour discussion about where new movers ought to reside in New Hampshire.  Recorded at the 2012 Porcupine Freedom Festival in the Shire Society Pavilion.  The lively conversation features many pros and cons for each area.

Some of the participants include:

Carla Gericke of the Upper Valley
Mark Edge of Cheshire County
Mike Finger of the Seacoast
Kate Muller of Manchester
Tom Van Der Shire of the Seacoast
Pete Eyre of Keene
William Kostric of Manchester
Stephen Prints of Keene
Jarrod Ean-Dixon of Concord
Samuel Thomas of Concord
Peter Bosse of Grafton
Tom Ploszaj of Grafton

With many more!

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