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Death of a Tokers Utopia

Michigan’s Raindbow Farm a remnant of Hippie Culture

By Steven Wishnia

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 ‘n’ roll, hear pro-legalization speeches and commune with the land and each other.… 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.

    Germany Posted by ticnatz on Aug 4, 2006 at 12:08 AM

    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

    United States Posted by buzzdaily on Nov 14, 2006 at 12:44 PM
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