SEBASTOPOL >> Fifty years after the Summer of Love and the hippie diaspora that sent flower children from the Haight Ashbury back to the land in the remote hills and valleys of the North Bay, the West ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a muggy summer afternoon in 2023, I was standing beside a pond with five near-strangers in their 40s and 50s. Before I knew ...

A lay Catholic commune with roots in the Bay Area hippie movement is now the target of multiple child sexual abuse lawsuits, and three sisters raised within the community say a dark undercurrent of ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in July 2021. In 1967, a successful businessman named Don McCoy grew out his hair, sold his business and started a hippie commune. Called the Chosen ...

Bill Wheeler’s ranch in the coastal hills near Occidental was one far-out place to live in the late 1960s and early ’70s. A former resident of the spontaneous Wheeler Ranch hippie commune, Alicia Bay ...

Artist Bill Wheeler, who 50 years ago welcomed free spirits onto a west Sonoma County commune that affronted country neighbors but also helped along the region’s tentative embrace of liberal politics ...

In their heyday, hippies were rebels, outsiders, counterculture subversives out to change the world, living on communes and opening their minds with psychedelic drugs. Nowadays, most of the original ...