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This is a list of communities known for having a major hippie subculture and/or other forms of alternative lifestyle subcultures. Europe. Germany Settlement ...
The Hog Farm is an organization considered America's longest running hippie commune.Beginning as a collective in North Hollywood, California, during the 1960s, a later move to an actual hog farm in Tujunga, California gave the group its name.
The commune had high turnover, including much of its founding group of about a dozen. [1] Co-founder Max Finstein left after about a year and later started a new commune called The Reality Construction Company. [3] Author Iris Keltz first visited in 1968, witnessing communal living, and felt it had changed by 1969 as communes went mainstream. [6]
Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers, Longhair, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0062437303. Kern, Louis (1993). The Farm Midwives. Retrieved February 1, 2008, from The Farm Web site "Why We Left The Farm", Whole Earth Review #49, Winter 1985, pp 56–66 (stories from eight former members)
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
Hippie communes, where members tried to live the ideals of the hippie movement, continued to flourish. On the West Coast, Oregon had quite a few, [108] while in 1970, the hippie community of Tawapa was founded in New Mexico. [109] It lasted until the 1990s, when the people were pushed off the land due to housing developments. [110]
By 1970, many intentional communities had developed in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, some of which were inspired by Drop City. Libre, north of Gardner, Colorado, was founded by several ex-"Droppers", and was among the more well known. Some communities continue to exist in some form today (notably in the Taos, NM area).
Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher (2005), about Lonnie Frisbee; Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) Hippie Masala [1] (2006), Swiss documentary about the hippies who live in India. Hippie Movie (2008, Polish/English) Huerfano Valley [2] (2012, English), about a 40 years old hippie commune in Colorado. Three ...