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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.
Buddhist-inspired Hippie vegetarian community. De-collectivized in 1983. East Wind Community: Ozark County, Missouri Kat Kinkade: 1973 present A secular and democratic community in which members hold all communities assets in common. Acorn Community Farm: Virginia Ira Wallace: 1993 currently active egalitarian commune; branched off of Twin Oaks.
Black Bear Ranch was the subject of the 2005 documentary Commune by Jonathan Berman. The commune still exists today and continues to follow the basic ideals which motivated its founding. At the Summer Solstice Gathering in 2013, there were over 40 residents, the highest population in decades.
Communes played an integral part of the 1960s American hippie movement. [3] Members of the 1960s counterculture movement created communes as a way to survive outside the hegemonic system and to resist the boredom of enforced heterosexuality, the Vietnam War, capitalism, racism, mass media, and the government.
Ah, the 1970s. A decade defined by the dissipation of “Beatlemania” and the rise of funk. By antiwar protests and hippie communes. By big, boisterous afros and large, wispy curls.
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 ...
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).