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	Amazon.com: Drop City: Books: T.C. Boyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drop City is funny, evocative, and well-paced, shifting between the hippies and the Alaskan locals--primarily Sess and his new bride Pamela (a city dweller who arranged stays with several trappers over a few weeks to determine whom she would marry)--until the two cultures collide.
		His ninth novel, which centers on the travails of a hippie commune, Drop City, in the early '70s, gives him plenty of poseurs to work with.
		Drop City, in Sonoma County, Calif., is run, in a manner of speaking, by a gold-toothed purveyor of Aquarian notions, Norm Sender.
	www.amazon.com /Drop-City-T-C-Boyle/dp/0142003808 (900 words)

	There's no turning back once city employee opts for DROP \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		San Diego city employees are retiring earlier and in much greater numbers than anticipated, straining a work force already hobbled by budget cuts and potentially inflating the pension system's deficit.
		DROP is one factor in the large number of retirements.
		A report from the City Manager's Office in January said the city saves money every time an employee enters DROP instead of retiring in the traditional way because it is less expensive to provide the DROP benefits than allow normal escalations in retirement benefits during a worker's last five years of service.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050531/news_1n31drop.html (1121 words)

	CLUI - Newsletter
		Drop City was a community that formed in the hills of southern Colorado in the late 1960's, which bloomed and disintegrated by the early 70's.
		In 1965, the four original settlers of Drop City, art students and writers from the Universities of Kansas and Colorado, moved to a hillside near Trinidad, in the south eastern corner of Colorado.
		At Drop City, debris and building remnants from the original settlement remain at the site today, though it is not inhabited.
	www.clui.org /clui_4_1/lotl/lotlsp96/drop.html (398 words)

	Ohio Court Grants Summary Judgment to City; Seven-Inch Edge Dropoff in Repaving Project Not a Nuisance
		On September 23, 1998, the city filed a motion for summary judgment in which it argued that it was immune from liability pursuant to R.C. The trial court overruled the city's motion for summary judgment and the city appealed.
		Appellants contend that the city should be liable in the present case due to the fact that the edge drop was created as a result of recent construction, whereas in Stevens, the edge drop apparently came into existence over a period of time.
		A seven-inch edge drop between the paved road and the berm does not amount to a nuisance as that term has been defined by the Supreme Court of Ohio, and the city is immune from liability for any injuries caused by alleged defects in the road created as a result of the repaving.
	www.usroads.com /journals/rilj/0111/ri011102.htm (2309 words)

	Drop City
		Drop City tells the story of a California hippie commune in the early 70s that, for various reasons, moves itself to upper Alaska.
		The description of Drop City's migration to the north is intertwined with the story of the modern-day mountain men and women of Boynton, Alaska - living off the land, they are also dropouts from "straight" society in their own ways.
		"Drop City" is a compelling, emotional and suspenseful tale of life on the edge of sanity, society, and basic survival, and a thrilling depiction of the beauty and danger that ensues when people choose to live this life.
	bookstore24x7.com /b-drop-city (1474 words)

	IDS: A poignant clash of cultures (Arts, 07/19/2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Drop City," the ninth novel by literary force T. Coraghessan Boyle, is perhaps his most subtle and poignant work to date.
		"Drop City" is neither satire nor nostalgia, but rather a truthful telling of the ideals and personalities that drove the counterculture movement.
		Unflinching and never sentimental, "Drop City" is a brilliant work of fiction that is a tour de force throughout its 500-plus pages, with a conclusion that is shocking, yet satisfying.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=23895 (579 words)

	The Joe Bob Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The title refers to a hippie commune in California; the year appears to be 1970 (or thereabouts), and Drop City is the name given both to a parcel of land and the community that inhabits it.
		The people of Drop City are happy to run away from their old homes, but few will accept the hard work that goes into building a new one.
		Still, when the Drop City drop-outs finally arrive in the Land of the Midnight Sun and come face to face with some of the other American drop-outs of the same period, the reader is expecting something fairly dramatic to happen--and it doesn’t.
	www.joebobbriggs.com /bookclub/reviews/D/dropcity.html (1693 words)

	Metroactive Features \| 'Drop City'
		Drop City was the name of a real commune in Colorado, and its North Bay location is an amalgam of Wheeler's Ranch and Morning Star.
		Drop City North, as the Boynton enclave is known, is founded just before the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, in the last year allowing for that good old-fashioned homesteading, which is no longer legal.
		In Drop City, a horse is fatally mauled in an auto accident, and one of the resident's children almost drowns in the greasy muck of the swimming pool.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.15.03/drop-city-0320.html (2415 words)

	Drop Dead
		Davis appeared before the City Council's Committee on Fiscal Stability on Feb. 10, and told council members that "given the negative impact on the pension fund, at this point I would recommend to the mayor that DROP be discontinued." Her remarks were not publicized.
		City officials say the DROP plan and the pension obligation note had nothing to do with each other, and that it was just a coincidence that the two events happened the same year.
		When City Councilman Kenney came up with a plan to extend the maximum period that city employees could stay in the DROP from four to 10 years, Captain Edward F. Stinson of the city police department wrote Kenney to say that delaying the effects of the DROP was a good idea.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2003-07-24/cover.shtml (5001 words)

	MPR Books - "Drop City" by T.C. Boyle
		The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already homesteading in the wilderness and the brothers and sisters of Drop City, who, despite their devotion to peace, free love, and the simple life, find their commune riven by tensions.
		As these two communities collide, their alliances shift and unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head.
		Drop City is not a satire or a nostalgic look at the '60s, though its evocation of the period is presented with a truth and clarity that no book on that era has achieved.
	www.mpr.org /books/titles/boyle_dropcity.shtml (376 words)

	TC Boyle Drop City reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Drop City is a big chunk of farmland in Northern California, inherited by Norm Sender and inhabited by Sender and a group of drop-outs.
		In creating a utopian society, the inhabitants of Drop City studiously ignore how dependent they are on the tools and comforts provided by the society they are rejecting.
		Boyle's strength in 'Drop City' is his ability to orchestrate a huge cast, and an intricate plot in a very naturalistic fashion.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/boyle-drop_city.htm (941 words)

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