The Complex, pictured here in 1966, was the most ambitious structure at Drop City. It was based on the Zome, a stretched zonahedral form that consisted of three 30-foot connected domes. It was ...

When most people think of communes, they envision shaggy hippies, psychedelic drugs and free-love free-for-alls. But according to Bridget Downey-Meyer, those stereotypes sell the idea — and, more ...

Clark Richert, left, a Kansas University graduate who co-founded Drop City, stands outside a geodesic dome that served as a kitchen for the commune in this 1965 photo. At right is fellow Drop City ...

Three decades after growing up in a European free-love commune, Paul-Julien Robert plunged into the film archives to make the extraordinary documentary, My Fathers, My Mother and Me. Global Editorial ...

Jonathan Berman's documentary, "Commune," about life at Northern California's experimental Black Bear Ranch has a different story arc than many tales from the radical '60s. Black Bear didn't go up in ...

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