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After decades of defiance, a California hippie commune is defeated

After 25 years of warnings, fines and broken promises, Humboldt County supervisors finally voted last week to crack down on the infamous Yee Haw commune. Their unanimous decision set in motion plans ...
WESA

The Far Out History Of How Hippie Food Spread Across America

Frustrated with the Vietnam War, The Man, and the general state of the nation, hippies set out to do everything differently. They founded rural communes, dabbled in psychedelics and cultivated a ...
Yahoo

Vintage photos show how people lived, partied, and protested during the 'Summer of Love'

The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...
Wall Street Journal

First Bay Area Hippie Commune Reunites

In 1968, 18 children and 22 adults lived together as the first Bay Area hippie commune. Living on 760 acres, the historic site of Olompali state park in northern California was once the home of music ...
Brattleboro Reformer

New film documents life on the hippie communes

BRATTLEBORO — "Far Out: Life On & After the Commune," an 85-minute documentary that tells the story of two local communal farms, will run at the Latchis from Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, with a special ...