Droppers: America's First Hippie Commune, Drop City

by Mark Matthews

Book Overview

Recounts the rise and fall of this famous 1960s community Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. In popular imagination, these words seem to capture the atmosphere of 1960s hippie communes. Yet when the first hippie commune was founded in 1965 outside Trinidad, Colorado, the goal wasn't one long party but rather a new society that integrated life and art. In Droppers, Mark Matthews chronicles the rise and fall of this utopian community, exploring the goals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806140585
• ISBN13: 9780806140582
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.7"