Their intention was to create an artists’ and writers’ retreat, a gathering place for creative and freethinking people.

[1] Many people built houses at Quarry Hill, with an agreement with the Fiskes that the land would continue to be owned by the family.

Program, which offers educational material on the self-destructive and negative effect on children of spanking and other violence.

[10] In 1978 Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, and a number of Quarry Hill residents created Top-Drawer Rubber Stamp Company, a pictorial rubber stamp company featuring art by Crumb, Spiegelman, and many other cartoonists and artists, including Barbara Fiske.

Barbara Fiske continued to live and teach art at Quarry Hill into her 90s, eventually moving to a nursing home in White River Junction, Vermont, where she died after several days of being read poetry by her daughter and son-in-law, and by moments of Quaker silence, as Barbara became a member of the Society of Friends in 1982, in Middlebury Vermont.