Hippie commune

What was it like to grow up on a commune? That’s a question I heard a lot after emerging into society from America’s largest commune. In the late 60′s, 320 San Francisco hippies took a caravan of …

What was it like to grow up on America's largest commune? In the late 60's, 320 San Francisco hippies took a caravan of 60 buses across the country & founded "The Farm" in 1971 on 1,750 acres in the backwoods of TN. It reached a peak of 1500 people, all who took a vow of poverty to live communally, self sufficient off the grid. During the 70's and early 80's, hundreds of children grew up knowing only this reality. Living in tents and school buses, knowing nothing of TV, packaged food, meat…

Existing most famously in feminist theory, the lesbian separatist communes of the 1970s called on women to claim lesbianism or celibacy and move out to rural farms deemed "womyn's lands." Today, some feminists are trying to revive the idea.

Eye-Opening Photographs Of Life On Hippie Communes

Image courtesy of Patty Paulsen and Sunburst Sanctuary They came from the mountains, and kept to themselves. If you were lucky, you might have seen them frolicking in the hills under the glow of the buttery, golden hour sunshine that California does so well. Collectively, they were known as “The

Thanks to a bitter disagreement between Elizabeth Taylor's brother and the Hawaiian government, a group of hippies were able to create their own utopia on Kauai in the 70s.

Italo Bertolasi photographed the clothing-optional life on the communes and the hippie trails after e.

Isabelle Calhoun, a New York cartoonist during World War Two who moved to Vermont to co-found the state's 'oldest alternative and artist's retreat,' died on Monday. Calhoun and her husband at the time, Irving Fiske, bought a 140-acre farm in Rochester in 1946. The farm became the Quarry Hill Creative Center and was popular in the 1960s with young 'hippies.'