Tag Archives: The Farm
Farewell to a Farmer
I got some sad news last night when I found out that Stephen Gaskin, the founder of The Farm commune in Summertown, TN, had died. The Farm was one of the longest-lived alternative-living experiments to be born out of the hippie movement in the 1960′s, and it was always a badge of pride to point [...]
The Farm on Film
My neighbors in Tennessee live on the longest-surviving hippie commune in the United States. Here’s ABC’s take on the place in 2012: If you thought communes had gone the way of the tie dye shirt, think again. New, non-hippy ones are springing up. The oldest, The Farm—still hippyish and still going strong–is the subject of [...]
Posted in Cinema, Counter Culture
Tagged 1973, ABC, American Commune, Commune, documentary, Nadine Mundo, Phil Donahue, Rena Mundo, The Farm, Walter Cronkite
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