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The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias
Half a century ago, a legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land, creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Here, the last of those rogue souls offer a glimpse of their otherworldly residences—and the tail end of a grand social experiment.
https://www.gq.com/story/californias-vanishing-hippie-utopias
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This is a real interesting
This is a real interesting article. I meant to post it up the other day, so thank you.
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Yeah beautiful and sad all at
Yeah beautiful and sad all at the same time. Got to spend some time on a beautiful property in Willits that wasn't a commune but was built by a guy who used to own record stores in LA and moved there in the 70's . Completely off the grid runs on solar and some hydro power in the winter. He also built an incredible natural pool with fish and water lilies, and the gardens were magical with trout ponds built into the irrigation system. All much harder to do now. All the Nor Cal counties have lots of regulations now to keep people like this out. In Lake county you can't camp on your land even if you are in the process of building.
But I also know some people who grew up as kids on some of the communes and their experience was far from magical.
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old baja mex saying..."bad
old baja mex saying..."bad roads bring good people, good roads bring bad people"...
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I still have a copy of The
I still have a copy of The Last Whole Earth Catalog .
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I have a bunch of Whole Earth
I have a bunch of Whole Earth catalogs, Jaz. I don't remember which ones.
I'm still reading the article and enjoying it. Thanks for the link.
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My late Uncle on my Mother's
My late Uncle on my Mother's side brought around a Whole Earth Catalog to our house. He homesteaded a place in Alaska in the 70's and lived by that book, built his own cabin on a lake off grid. I had great stories and show and tell at school related to him, just like the doc out there by Dick Proenneke. My beautiful Uncle Richard left that book and I soaked it up, every page, it was a whole new world to me so far from suburban normalcy and I know to this day that it influenced me and my approach to life.
Thank You Uncle Dick!
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Had that fantasy in my youth
Had that fantasy in my youth but ...............
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I still have it approaching
I still have it approaching 60, FFS, getting stronger every year.......
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https://kymkemp.com/2021/09
https://kymkemp.com/2021/09/19/early-arrivals-interviews-by-paul-modic-a...
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Meant to add this excerpt
Meant to add this excerpt from West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, edited by Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, and Cal Winslow (PM Press, 2012).
This piece is on the long side and in need of a good editor, but there are interesting bits of local history about Mendocino area and Table Mountain.
https://brooklynrail.org/2012/04/express/the-albion-nation-communes-on-t...
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Whale gulch
Whale gulch
https://kymkemp.com/2021/11/02/early-arrivals-interviews-by-paul-modic-a...