modern daughters of the West in Emeryville a rashes mining town where the living and the dead and have it each other's dreams and lives the balance the communities and land are fragile. when a group of strong-willed lesbians feminist artists bar keepers single mothers find themselves attacked by hunters, fundamentalist crusade and highway construction man with bulldozers, they call on time tested traditions of women's spiritual and cultural for help. some of us and I don't mean only lesbians who have lived quiet and free in the side canyons and of our culture are about to have our color alone. soon we'll have to decide whether we're playing with revolution or will stand and fight, with sage smoking to the four directions chisels on Stone herbal remedies recycling love a song we can sing and some other method Melissa Kowalski has shown us the ways Linda has a strong author of windbreak and going over the east what a wonderful book this is witty warmly insightful drawer and above all presenting a movie in picture of a whole community all in language which is never sentimental yet and full of music beauty and marvel Susie Griffith author of women's and nature