On a muggy summer afternoon in 2023, I was standing beside a pond with five near-strangers in their 40s and 50s. Before I knew what was happening, they all gave each other a nod of agreement, stripped ...

In 1971, a group of squatters took over a military base in Copenhagen and called their enclave "Christiania." Their plan was to break away from Denmark and its laws, to stop living under a ...

Frustrated with the Vietnam War, The Man, and the general state of the nation, hippies set out to do everything differently. They founded rural communes, dabbled in psychedelics and cultivated a ...

SUMMERTOWN, Tenn. -- Three decades after the golden age of the hippie, about 200 of them are still thriving in a self-supporting commune some three hours east of glitzy Graceland. Known simply as The ...

In 1968, 18 children and 22 adults lived together as the first Bay Area hippie commune. Living on 760 acres, the historic site of Olompali state park in northern California was once the home of music ...

When Nancy Cogen opened a batik store on Atlantic Avenue’s antique row in Boerum Hill 41 years ago, it was a neighborhood of run-down rooming houses and communes, where a brownstone cost $25,000. The ...