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 ...

Hippie culture began in the 1960s as a social movement focused on peace, environmentalism, and simple communal living. While it has faded as a mainstream identity, its values of alternative lifestyles ...

Shawnee’s Paradise advertises itself as an idyllic property for wayward spirits and those looking for a peaceful place to stay in North Miami. A 2016 rental agreement for Shawnee’s filed in court ...

It was! And it wasn’t! Kind of! Let me explain: On last night’s Mad Men, Roger’s daughter ran off to a hippie farm to smoke pot and love freely. (Why she did this when she could have followed her ...

Smidl is author of the novel “Wagon 537 Christiania,” a fictionalized chronicle of his life in the hippie community. “Contrary to what many may think, the Freetown of Christiania did not come into ...

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 ...

FRZ:IT IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THE HIPPIE COMMUNE USED TO BE JUST UP THE ROAD FROM WHERE MY FRIDEN BKYIN AND HIS WEIF LIVE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. IT STARTED IN 1969, WHEN RAINBOW’S DAD ...

But all is not well in Christiania. While the hippie community still thrives today, it’s beset by problems that threaten its identity and future — an existential crisis variously blamed on intolerant ...