About The Wagon Box

The Wagon Box in the small town of Story, Wyoming is the place to get away from the din of The Machine. With lodging, a library, restaurant, tavern and café, all within earshot of rushing streams, and 20 beautiful acres near national forest trails, you can rest, read, write, fish, explore, and meet other escapees or any of the local characters

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A Place To Call Home

More than a privately owned resort, The Wagon Box is forging a new kind of place and to serve as an intergenerational commonwealth of conversation, learning, adventure, and investment, as well as an oasis of art, music, and story. The old social fabric of small-town and urban burroughs has been shredded by a series of new technologies. Vast impersonal hedge funds are absorbing neighborhoods and turning them into rent machines. Cottage industry itself has been turned into an international commodity, and the political apparatus is largely a system for converting fear and confusion into control. And yet there must always remain hope. Nostalgic laments, anti-technological and anti-corporate vitriol get us nowhere. We must forge new institutions within these realities that are based in gratitude and rooted in loyalty and connection. The Wagon Box will be a project along these lines, but also a place where folks can have this conversation of how to live sanely in strange times, and how to work together toward a bright and heavenly future.
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The Library

But, more than a privately owned resort or a non-profit retreat center, The Wagon Box is forging a new kind of place. It will be owned by a distributed community of thoughtful men and serve as an intergenerational commonwealth of conversation, learning, adventure, and investment, as well as an oasis of art, music, and story.The old social fabric of small-town and urban burroughs has been shredded by a series of new technologies. Vast impersonal hedge funds are absorbing neighborhoods and turning them into rent machines. Cottage industry itself has been turned into an international commodity, and the political apparatus is largely a system for converting fear and confusion into control. And yet there must always remain hope. Nostalgic laments, anti-technological and anti-corporate vitriol get us nowhere. We must forge new institutions within these realities that are based in gratitude and rooted in loyalty and connection. The Wagon Box will be a project along these lines, but also a place where folks can have this conversation of how to live sanely in strange times, and how to work together toward a bright and heavenly future.

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The Library Footnotes

The rest of our collection will focus on topics such as small-scale economics, alternative governance models, pioneering arts and adventures, civic and community organization, agrarianism, and the like. We will focus on harder-to-find texts.

Some examples are:
- Wendell Berry
- Alexander Chayanov
- Camillo Sitte
- Ralph Borsodi
- Scott & Helen Nearing
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
- And others

A Note on Mr. Toad and Wind in the Willows.
The stories of Rat, Mole, and Toad in Kenneth Graham’s classic are some of the best illustrations of the bond of joy and responsibility that attend close friendship. Mr. Toad’s adventures and the loving efforts of his friends to contain his excess are a wonderful lesson in community life and we want to celebrate that through honoring Mr. Thaddeus Toad.
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