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Article: SUMMER OF THE 'HIPPIE INVASION'.(Special Sections)
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- Taos News (Taos, NM)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2009
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Byline: PHAEDRA GREENWOOD
By Phaedra Greenwood
In Taos, 1969 was not known as "the summer of love" but "the summer of the hippie invasion." All over the country hippies had been experimenting with innovative lifestyles on a scale that hadn't been seen since the early Shakers and Ralph Waldo Emerson's utopian community called Brook Farm. Aqu in Taos, communes had sprung up like mushrooms all over the county, not in opposition to the local agrarian lifestyle, but as alternatives to the me-fi rst consumerism of middle class America. Benefactors with trust funds, bless their hearts, bought promising parcels of land. By 1969 there were at least six communes ...