1. HIPPIE COLONIES

2. Counterculture of the 60s
• Hippies rejected the establishment
• Embraced Eastern philosophies and
sexual liberation
• Protested against the Vietnam war

5. Hippie Communes
• They created places were they could
live the ideal hippie life
• Communes-secular
-alternative religions
• Used a modified tribal structure based
on the Native American example

6. • 1960-70-many
rural and urban
communities were
founded, but
lasted a short
time because of
poor planning and
execution

7. DROP CITY
• First rural hippie commune
• 1965-Trinidad, Colorado
• Community of artists

8. • Founded by Gene Bernofski, JoAnn
Bernofski, Richard Kallweit, Clark
Richert
• Envisioned themselves as a utopian
community living within a work of art

9. HOG FARM
• Longest running
hippie commune
• Founded in 1964
by the clown Hugh
Romney also
known as Wavy
Gravy
Wavy Gravy

10. • Initially located on a hog farm outside
Los Angeles, it became a travelling
commune

11. • They were in charge of the security at
Woodstock-they were known as the
‘Please Force’

12. THE FARM
• Founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin
• Was a spiritual leader in San Francisco
• Taught a blend of Eastern religions and
Christianity
• Lewis County, Tennessee
• Members took vows of poverty, did not
use artificial birth controls, alcohol,
tobacco, animal products

13. • Believed in the holiness of life
• Smoking marijuana was a sacrament

15. Children of God/The Family
• Was part of the
‘Jesus Movement’, a
Christian element
within the hippie
movement
• The members of the
movement were
called ‘Jesus freaks’
• Founded in 1968 by
David Berg in
California
David Berg

16. • Founded colonies in cities around the
world
• Rejected mainstream Christianity

17. • Had ideas of apocalypticism and
revolution against the outside world
that they call ‘the System’
• True disciples must drop out and
‘forsake all.’
• Flirty Fishing
• The group’s liberal sexuality led to
cases of child abuse