The greatest wave of communal living in American history crested in
the tumultuous 1960s era including the early 1970s. To the
fascination and amusement of more decorous citizens, hundreds of
thousands of mostly young dreamers set out to build a new culture
apart from the established society. Widely believed by the larger
public to be sinks of drug-ridden sexual immorality, the communes
both intrigued and repelled the American people.
The intentional communities of the 1960s era were far more
diverse than the stereotype of the hippie commune would suggest. A
great many of them were religious in basis, stressing spiritual
seeking and disciplined lifestyles. Others were founded on secular
visions of a better society. Hundreds of them became so stable that
they survive today.
This book surveys the broad sweep of this great social yearning
from the first portents of a new type of communitarianism in the
early 1960s through the waning of the movement in the mid-1970s.
Based on more than five hundred interviews conducted for the 60s
Communes Project, among other sources, it preserves a colorful and
vigorous episode in American history. The book includes an
extensive directory of active and non-active communes, complete
with dates of origin and dissolution.
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