A number of books have been written about the Rainbow Gathering either directly or indirectly. The most recent (yes even newer than my book, Falling From The Moon) is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. Not sure I’m fond of the title because the book’s author was not murdered as were the other two named in this book, which doesn’t really make her the “third.” And the friends that started on the journey with Nancy and Vicki was not murdered either.
On June 25, 1980, Nancy Santomero and Vicki Durian were murdered in West Virginia en route to the 1980 Rainbow Gathering.
That being said, my ex and some of my friends were involved in bringing some level of justice to the murderer/s depending on what you believe. I’m not sure if Emma Copley Eisenberg interviewed many of the original rainbow gathering attendees who investigated the tragic deaths of Nancy and Vicki among others. While I realize this story is not about the rainbow gathering per se, this is our history and our journey.
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