Droppers : America's First Hippie Commune, Drop City

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Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Droppers: Text ; Film Premier; Audubon Article; T.C. Boyle; Reaction to Boyle's Novel; The Interviews Begin; David and Mary Bernofsky; FBI Files; The Second Interview; Red Diaper Babies Eugene Victor Debs and Karl Marx; Bicycle Boy; Public Education; An Old Bellows Camera; Erasmus High School; Pipe Dreams; Lawrence, Kansas; All Change! Shift of Focus; Bernofsky and Richert; The Mennonite Religion; Droppings; Capitalistic Free Enterprise; Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation; Jack Kerouac; A New Civilization in Africa; Enter Peter Rabbit. The Journey BeginsPaper Trail Drop City; Communes through-out U.S. History; Geodesic Domes and Bucky Fuller; Scrounging and Recycling; The First Dome; Meanwhile, at the Corner of Haight and Ashbury; The Diggers; Life down on the Commune; Chicken Coop; Decharging over Peanut Butter ; The Kitchen Dome; Those Who Came Before; The Press Takes Notice; Steve Baer, Zome Builder; Recycling Car Tops; A Car Top Zome; The Triple-dome Complex; Opinions of Drop City Architecture; DiJulio's Pit; Dropper Art Projects; Ultimate Painting; The Being Bag; Ken Kesey; Thomas Morton of Merry Mount. Enter Peter RabbitArmageddon: The Doomsday Gig; The Main Match: Bernofsky versus Douthit; Peter Rabbit Hole; A Civilization without Laws; Conrad Beissel; The Ephrata Clioster; The Nation's First Artists' Colony; The Dropper Newsletter; Dope; Grass; Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds; Augustus Owsley Stanley III; Free Love; From Dymaxion Award to Foodstamps; Expanding Infamy; The Joy Festival; The Festivities; Death of the Hippie at the Corner of Haight-Ashbury; Time Magazine Article; Death Knell for Drop City; Douthit's Epiphany; Bernofsky's Attempted Return Engagement; Life after Drop City. The Truth about the Golden CartopAfterword ; Notes ; Notes on Sources ; Acknowledgments ; Index