Mark Matthews
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. In popular imagination, these words seem to capture the atmosphere of 1960s hippie communes. Yet when the first hippie commune was founded in 1965 outside Trinidad, Colorado, the goal wasn't one long party but rather a new society that integrated life and art. In Droppers, Mark Matthews chronicles the rise and fall of this utopian community, exploring the goals behind its creation and the factors that eventually led...