"even "That Drop City had to die, I knew, was no reason to mourn. All living things die. It's not the death that is important, but the day- by-day living, what we create in the world. The basic idea of Drop City and the Counterculture, to withdraw energy from the old system and use it to reshape society and the world, is an undying process. Young people always have to find their own structures to express their collective energies. They always turn to each other. Where else can they turn? I found out later that Curly and Jo had opposed selling Drop City. Curly had an idea of he and Jo moving back onto the land by themselves, and starting over again. Clard and the others wouldn't go along with it. I also found out later that, in order to sell the land, they had to remove from the deed the clause that declared the land "forever free and open to all people." Forever doesn't always last very long. All the domes except the theater were eventually dismantled and scavenged. A fitting end. The last I heard, the old Drop City theater dome is still there. But even when all traces of Drop City are wiped off the land, as they surely will be, the memory of a small band of creative young people defying the world and conventional reason, naïvely striving to liberate themselves, each other and society, to live in peace to the fullest, will continue to echo in our cultural memory every time people try, as we used to say, to live the Revolution." ............Drop City
An Update from Timothy Miller: "Minor detail, if anyone's interested: the theater dome at DC came down a year or two ago, or so I've heard. It was in terrible disrepair when I was last there maybe five years ago, so I wasn't surprised."
Tim

Black Bear Ranchwas another commune isolated in the Klamath Wilderness in California where many found a new way of life close to "the land".
"almost 20 years ago, a collection of hippies, draft dodgers, old beatniks, anarchist, drop outs and space cadets moved into a mountain commune. They sought to escape the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco, the draft and the Vietnam War, overbearing parents and a culture many of them considered corrupt and hypocritical. Over fifty adults and children collected money from welfare checks, inheritances, savings, and extortion from rock bands to buy 80 acres surrounded by national forest, four hours away from electricity and the nearest hospital. The locals claimed they wouldn't last the winter and, if it hadn't been for dope runs to San Francisco, hikes through the snow to replenish the tobacco supply and their dedication to creating what they called "a new culture," they wouldn't have lasted.
"...... Black Bear Solstice Reunion ~1987

Tolstoy Farm in Washington, and the Community of Athens located in Southeastern Ohio, are a couple more examples of a way of Life that was spreading across the Land bringing with it a return to not only a more natural way of life, but also creating a Unity of Thought and Spirit which was both Endearing, Enlightening and Powerfull. Listening to the audio, or reading the article "Going Back to the Land" , about life in the Minnestota woods, we can find some of the reason's for a person choosing to live a rustic lifestyle.