The motto of Rainbow Farm in Vandalia, Mich., could have been "A Working-Class Hippie Is Something to Be." On Memorial and Labor Day weekends from 1996 to 2000, a few thousand amplifier-factory workers, hippie girls and truckers' wives-turned-political-activists camped out there to smoke weed, listen to rock [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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All I can say is “blessed are the self-righteous”. Religion will be the cause of man’s ultimate demise. What a sad species we are sometimes.
hey now, as a phrend of the guys & the farm I,m, glad that steve reveiwed the book as I know he was there & enjoyed it & his time spent with our local activests but as a nieghbour & friend of toms I still wonder WHO it was that worked their & then went to the IRS if that is known please tell us .thanks buzzdaily &the; wood bitches
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