In the 1960s and early 1970s, Vermont acquired a reputation for being a haven for hippies and a hotbed of counter-cultural communal living. There was some truth to that. But the communes and alternative life-styles of that generation had a deeper history than most outsiders—and most of the commune residents themselves—knew. And, like their predecessors in the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the often colorful, sometimes controversial, and much-discussed communal experiments of the late twentieth century ended up having a profound impact on the next generation of Vermonters.
For more background on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/back-to-the-land-communes-in-vt-1968
Episode 29: The WPA
Episode 28: The Early Days of Skiing
Episode 27: The Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Episode 27: The Green Mountain Parkway
Episode 26: Fighting the Great Depression with the CCC
Episode 25: Collecting Old Songs: Helen Hartness Flanders
Episode 24: Vermont in the Great Depression
Episode 23: The Flood of 1927
Episode 22: Memories of Silent Cal
Episode 20: Vermont Country Fairs
Episode 19: Walter Hard, Storekeeper-Writer
Episode 18: The KKK in Vermont
Episode 17: Edna Beard
Episode 16: The Anarchist Movement in Barre
Episode 15: Women Get the Vote
Episode 14: Prohibition
Episode 13: The Early Days of Radio
Episode 12: The Co-op Movement
Episode 11: The 1918 Flu Epidemic
Episode 10: World War I & Camp Vail
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