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Across the Fence:  any hippies???  |
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
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sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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 Posted - May 11 2010 : 07:49:00 AM
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ok well on the clothes thread i read some of you are hippies. lets swap stories. i lived in a commune off grid with kids in public school. i worked in the hospital and commuted. we were drug free organic no electric. you had to walk in 2 miles. so many fine memories. we were all a family. closed commune. we were known as Eaters Acres. we loved good food and down home music. this was in the years 1971 to 1973. whats your story. happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
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grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 1:00:27 PM
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Oh Sherrye I wished I was in those days - I was in middle school but my heart and spirit would have loved to live that life. Now that I turned 51 I wished I could find a community that would be more life those days. I want to share the knowledge I gained and the passions I have with like minded folks. That is why I love being on this site - to find those folks with the same mind and passion.
You are my sister even if we never meet. Blessings to you.
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 3:17:03 PM
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My son's tell everyone I am the orginal hippy, how-ever I never went to woodstock or any concert. I did make a lot of my own dresses, way back then only because my girlfriends & I shared patterns and it was cheaper. I always made more food than needed incase someone stopped in, I never even owned a van. I do love flowers & gardens and I am 100% for peace! So if they think I'm a hippy it's a good thing in my book.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
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delicia
True Blue Farmgirl
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delicia
cincinnati
ohio
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 3:48:02 PM
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I lived on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon for 6 yrs. we walked everywhere, and in the winter there were hardly any of us there. I don't think I was a hippy because I was a hick so a hippy was too trendy for me. I loved my time in the Canyon though it was great and we were a very close community and were very nature oriented..
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Farmtopia
True Blue Farmgirl
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Zan
New York
New York
USA
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2010 : 5:15:19 PM
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yes it all counts. when i met the folks at eater acres. i had already left home at almost 16. supported my self. married the wrong men two times. i had 2 boys by the time i was 18. i grew up with a sick mom and dad. so i got out quick. i was living on a farm 3 acres with my boys. my x husband kidnapped my baby 13 months out of his bed at night. i was driving and their hippie bus was broke down. i helped them. we became great friends. they would watch my older boy while i hitchhiked allover the states. its a long hard story. in the end after 2 years i found my son. when the farm i was renting sold. i had to leave. i went to eater acres. i learned to grind wheat berries. live with NO modern anything. we had cars miles out. we were in the rain forest of oregon. very wet.we had a band. there was a 12 string guitar,dulcemer, harmonica, regular guitars, wash tub base for real, many different drums and spoons. and singers. we would light a bonfire and the kids would run around and we would all sing. oh my.
they built a geodesic dome around a mother earth wood stove. amazing. they were good folks and good times. and yes i went to rock festivals. especially in the woods around corvalis and eugene here. we opened a restaurant, a food coop and a paraphnalia storespelling is bad sorry. we worked hard and were respected in the community. we were great friends with the jesus freaks. they baked our bread for our store and cafe. we advertised that the bread was blessed by the jesus freaks. people would laugh. we had a pickle dressed like may west as our mascot. she said..why dont ya come back and see me again. it was so fun i can not express. we had a reunion about 15 years ago. so good to see so many faces. some were actors. some were artists. some were singers. they were from ny city san francisco berkley. any hoot it was real fun sharing. my kids still say mom once a hippie always a hippie.i am proud of that. its been fun sharing. hope you enjoyed it. happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 5:18:32 PM
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I was in high school during that period and yes I was a hippie!! I had friends that lived in a commune outside of San Francisco. I grew up in Tahoe which was the jumping off point for Haight Ashbury so all the freaks came through on their way west. Spent a lot of time hiking the back country and camping out too. I was always in a long dress and hauled my guitar everywhere I went. We published our own version of the whole earth catalog in high school - made our own yogurt, baked bread and went through the "organic honey" phase as my mother termed it. I sewed all my clothes. In crafts class, we had a teacher who was trying to be cool and had long hair and a beard so he had us learning to spin wool on a drop spindle, throwing pots on a manual wheel and firing them in a wood fired kiln and lots of other crafty things associated with the hippie thing like macrame belts etc. We put on our own hot air balloon festival at a nearby hot spring featuring hot air balloons that we made ourselves out of tissue paper and flew over the snow covered fields and everyone made soup and bread and brought it. He even had us laying in a circle on the football field chanting...I enjoyed it but most thought it was weird.
It was always my dream to do the homestead thing so that's how we ended up here and built our log house from logs off of this land and I've been living the lifestyle now for more than 30 years. So many of the people who tried it out way back when missed the philosophy part and just wore the costumes. They went on to own multi-national corporations and the rest of us became potters, spinners, weavers, homesteaders, artists etc. (at least in our off time). To me it was about community, about respecting everyone, not just those of like mind, it was (is) spiritual - a connection with the land but also with the truth of oneself. It's about knowing how to be the source of your own supply by growing it or making it and then being open and trusting enough to share those gifts with others. It's about being as undependent as possible not because you have to but because it's a choice.
Blessings, Sheri
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 5:30:51 PM
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sheri we must meet. what a fine story. i got tears relating to it. you are so right. some of the folks lost their dream too. i ask one guy. did you ever build your tree house? he said no it was to hard. some went on in the same field they were in before. singing in broadway plays. my friends dad was the travel editor for the daily news in new york he paid to fly me there to see if my son was at his nanas in tuckerton new jersey. it was funny. we were the token hippie. they took us to plays and such. got to go to sardis. while we were there gino auditioned for hair. he got the part. i could not stay i wanted my forest back. we ended up coming home without kip. i would never had that chance otherwise. the bagels in manhatten are to die for. their chestnuts and hot dogs and canolis. i wanted to ask you. do you know kilns. i have one and molds but never have fired it up. i know nothing. do you sell your wool? happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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KanMogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Katherine
Rock
Kansas
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 5:43:16 PM
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I was in jr. high, high school, and college during the late sixties and seventies but I wasn't a hippy. In some ways, I could become a hippy now but not the drugs and free love stuff.
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 6:23:18 PM
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Here are a couple of pics of how it was when we were building our house.
What an adventure and a lot of help from family and friends.
Blessings, Sheri
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 6:49:51 PM
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oh there is a bug sitting there. i had a panel truck and lots of vw bugs. it is a familiar site. what a fine time it must have been for you all. how long did you live there? is that your dad? my dad loved to come up the hill and see us. he was always supportive. may i say i read kahlil gibran too and we loved the escher sketches. some of the guys played go a chinese game for hours. not me hard to sit still that long.lol happy days sherrye memory lane
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 6:55:13 PM
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Sherry, I still live here. It isn't so rustic now - we put a couple of additions on as we needed more space with kids et all. It's been a 30 year work in progress. I don't think it will ever be actually done.
Blessings, Sheri
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 7:03:50 PM
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oh that is so awesome. the history memories you have for you and your kids. that is so fine. how old are your kids? happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 7:33:16 PM
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My daughter is 28 almost 29 and lives in NYC and works on Wall Street. My son is 24 and still lives here in the area with his wife.
Blessings, Sheri
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 7:38:57 PM
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Total hippie chick here! Always will be. I was raised in a VW. I have driven many of them. The last one was a yellow bug. Drove him 10 years then gave him to my youngest DD and she drove him about 6 years. Between us we probably had $20,000. in that car alone. But so worth it. I will have another one or a van soon. I was a teenager in the 70's. Loved it. I had too much fun then. I would love to start a commune now. I think that would be so fun.
I love all you stories.
Kris
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 8:57:01 PM
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thanks kris, i am a total hippie chick too. i bet you know already that there are 4 bolts holding that motor in.i used to help my x with rebuilding those bugs. he got into drugs and then dealing. so i ran away from him.. he said if i left he would steal my baby. so he did. i have a hard time with forgiveness to him. i hate his guts to this day. he hurt the kids a lot. i never knew where kip was or if he was ok for 2 years. the man is still using and thinks hes a guru. living in the woods with his 5th wife. your when love is not enough post tells it all. thanks to all you girls who posted. this is fun.maybe there is more on here to post yet. love all the stories too. happy days sherrye
sheri where is elk wash? how far are you from bend or?
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 8:57:06 PM
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I wanted to be a hippie when I was growing up but by the time I was sixteen, disco was the rage. I remember listening to "Me and You and a Dog named Boo" and wanting to live that lifestyle so bad. I did (and still do) like the clothes they wore.
Cindy
"There is more to life than increasing its speed". Mahatma Gandhi
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
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sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
3775 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2010 : 9:10:43 PM
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i see all the hippie stuff coming back. even in food lines. back to seeds and nuts in whole wheat breads. even clothes that the modern girls wear now resemble hippie stuff. we used to sit around the fire at night. we would sew patches of different fabrics onto used levis. all hand done in blanket stitch. we would cover the entire pair pockets and all. we called them simply patches. in the 70s we made $100.00 a pair. we sent them to nyc. they sold faster than we could make them. i wonder if they would sell now
they were the winter rage.made by hippies in an oregon rain forest commune. we laughed all the way to the bank.
delicia, i have only seen the canyon by air. it took my breath away. to live there in the ruggedness of it. it must have been so cool. happy days sherrye
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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Posted - May 11 2010 : 9:26:40 PM
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Elk is about 30 miles north of Spokane. I know what you mean about the patched jeans - I used to sit on the beach with my embroidery bag and patch jeans or embroider designs on them for the freaks heading to Frisco. I made a good chunk of change doing it too.
Blessings, Sheri
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
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grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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Posted - May 12 2010 : 07:59:45 AM
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What wonderful life paths you ladies have been on and still are on. There are times when I fell like I was stuck in different times gone by - how I wish I could find those times here where I live. I agree that the 60' and 70's are being revisisted in clothing, music and back to the land plans but I think the vibe of trust and caring is not there - it was a heart centered time and I really do not feel that from most folks who are trying to recreate those times. Is that making sense?? Maybe it is where I am living right now - maybe that is why I have been giving great thought into relocation. I have lived in Colorado all my life but it just does not feel like the Colorado I know - maybe I need more sleep???
Love hearing your stories and past adventures.
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
http://www.larkspurfunnyfarm.etsy.com
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.blogspot.com
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.artfire.com
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Candy C.
True Blue Farmgirl
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Candy
Mescal
AZ
USA
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Posted - May 12 2010 : 1:46:57 PM
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I JUST MISSED the hippie timeframe but I have always been a hippie at heart!
Candy C.
Farmgirl Sister #977
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Wendy Flower
Farmgirl in Training
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Wendy
Gladstone
ND
USA
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Posted - Dec 04 2012 : 2:34:15 PM
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I grew up amonst hippies and have to say I didn't fall too far from that tree, though I'm a bit of a paradox having had one hippy parent and one parent that was conservative. Love of nature, music, drumming, bee keeping, wildcrafting herbs, the textile arts all have stayed with me along with some attitudes that are a little more outrageous than many of my northern tier neighbors. Keepin things real, lovin getting back to the rural life here in Gladstone ND.
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rphelps4
True Blue Farmgirl
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roxanna
westport
indiana
USA
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Posted - Dec 04 2012 : 9:32:55 PM
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| I too am a hippie, and very proud to be!! roxanna |
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