Video: Taos Journal - Hog Farm 60's Hippie Commune
Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Oxygen Nichols
Very 'out-there' video (10min 46sec) Taos Journal - Hog Farm 60's Hippie Commune. A visit with Oxygen Nichols, owner of the infamous Hog Farm, a mobile hallucination-extended family experiment from the 1960's in Llano Largo, New Mexico. This was the commune where the likes of Wavy Gravy, Ken Kesey and Ram Dass hung out before it was moved to Woodstock NY.
In this video Oxygen Nichols just talks about the bus, but the bus isn't in the video. To see the bus video, click here. "It's our Hog Farm bus. It's the Road Hog. And we traveled around the country in it. Andi it went to Woodstock and, you know... We had 'the great bus race' with Kesey's bus in Aspen Meadows, so it's kind of a famous bus back in its hay-day and really beautiful and running and everything. We had a fire in it at one point and then we were trying to get it fixed up in 1970 to take it back on the road. And we didn't get the one part that we needed to make it to the summer solstice. So from then on it just sat..."
