communes, culture, counterculture, Taos; Taos Hippie Communes
Audio file "Centennial Journeys" radio program 2012
Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs
Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives
In the late 1960s, waves of hippies fleeing the dominant culture in urban areas descended upon Taos to begin a new countercultural lifestyle in communes. The folks in Taos were not all that happy about it.