Documentary chronicles hippie commune ‘Drop City’ had roots in Lawrence, KU News Oct 7, 2012 - 12:00am ...

If you’re a Grateful Dead fan, you’re already familiar with the commune, which was founded at Olompali State Park in 1967. The band—one of many musical legends who played there—used a ...

Video documentation of tensions between commune hippies and local residents can be found in Pierre Sogol’s 1967 film “Aquarius Rising: Hippie Life in California,” which is available on YouTube.

Among the first to arrive were the Diggers, the radical Haight Ashbury commune that fed famished young hippies who migrated to San Francisco during 1967’s Summer of Love.

Adobe home found under Marin hippie commune MARIN COUNTY Adobe structure found under hippie commune artifacts By Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer Jan 14, 2009 ...

His commune is boarded up; his poetry has been confiscated; he has been busted. "So it was overcrowded," shrugs Palladin. "So we turned on. That doesn't affect Hayes--unless he wants to move in." ...

Over the past few months, the Bay Area has been waxing nostalgic over the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love," the 1967 season when "hippies" and tens of thousands of seekers, drifters and ...