Transformation a theme of Coast Vietnam draft dodger's panoramic memoir
When Ohio-born objector to the Vietnam War Jon Van Arsdell landed in Garden Bay in 1970, he was greeted by a sign proclaiming "No Longhairs." Van Arsdell’s autobiography 'No Longhairs: The Odyssey of a Vietnam Draft Dodger' shows that countercultural expatriates were hard-working contributors to the interdependent idyll of the Sunshine Coast, writes Michael Gurney.
Source: coastreporter.net