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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | The 1960s were a decade of protest. |
0:12.0 | The civil rights movement protested against the Vietnam War protests for women's equality |
0:17.6 | and alongside all of that social unrest. |
0:20.8 | There are also groups of young Americans who just wanted to escape the system entirely, |
0:25.7 | to hell with social norms, to hell with the rat race of capitalism. |
0:30.5 | They were going to create their own intentional communities, their own communists, and they |
0:35.5 | fled the big cities for these rural settings. |
0:46.2 | The community known as Libre was established in 1968, and to this day, in a sunny meadow |
0:52.8 | overlooking the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. |
0:55.8 | There are two geodesic domes that sit side by side. |
1:02.4 | And one early morning, in 1974, a baby was born in the smaller of those two domes. |
1:10.5 | And that baby grew up to be our very own mixed engineer, loose Fleming. |
1:15.8 | Hey Dylan, hey, how you doing? |
1:18.3 | Good, good. |
1:19.3 | Yeah, that sound of the baby crying isn't me. |
1:21.8 | I found it in a sound effects library, so yeah. |
1:25.5 | Fine, fine, fine, but you all get the idea. |
1:33.8 | This is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous |
1:38.9 | places. |
1:39.9 | I'm loose Fleming, and today I'm going to introduce you to Libre, an artist community |
1:44.9 | created over 50 years ago, plus we get to meet your mom, who was one of the founding |
1:51.6 | members. |
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