Inside America’s oldest hippie commune
If you thought hippie communities of the Sixties were dead, think again.
Still going strong is America’s oldest, The Farm, a piece of 1,700 acre land located in mid-Tennessee, that at its peak in the Eighties had 1,500 members and attracted celebrity visitors like Walter Cronkite and Phil Donahue.
Now, the 160 member community, more about Eco-Friendly living than free love, is the subject of the new documentary, American Commune, in which the filmmaker-sisters who were born there reveal what is like to grow up knowing nothing of commercial beauty, meat, television, or pop culture.