Free Love, Free Market

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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A free-love commune of perfectionists in upstate New York embraced the free market, and became a blockbuster brand. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:07.0	Hey, this is Stacy Vanick Smith.
0:10.0	Today's episode is a rerun.
0:12.0	It originally aired in 2017.
0:16.0	Just a quick warning.
0:17.0	Today's show has some adult themes.
0:21.0	Last week I was in Central New York in the town of O'Nida.
0:25.0	It's really beautiful up there.
0:27.0	It's blue mountains and rolling fields and farmhouses.
0:31.0	And I was up there exploring this place called the Mansion House.
0:34.0	It's this massive brick house on a hill with a blue slate roof.
0:38.0	It was built in 1862.
0:41.0	Back then, back in the 1800s, the Mansion House was a commune.
0:45.0	Hundreds of people lived there together.
0:47.0	And many of their descendants actually grew up in this house.
0:50.0	Kelly Noise Rose was showing me around the basement.
0:53.0	But look at the tunnel.
0:54.0	And it's still drippy where it used to be.
0:57.0	Where she and all the other kids used to play.
0:59.0	It was our playhouse, this house.
1:01.0	Really?
1:02.0	Yes.
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