Talk of a Sale Fills a Hippie Haven With Bad Vibes. (The New York Times, 3/11/2015)
Print headline: New Hassles for the Free Spirits of Slab City.
An unregulated squatter settlement, Slab City is home to perhaps 150 year-round residents — refugees from mortgages and bill collectors, former hippies, rebels and self-identified misfits — who live in personal camps made from old trailers, truck campers and crude lean-tos, and call themselves Slabbers. From October to April, the population swells to perhaps 2,000 as snowbirds, attracted by the guaranteed sunshine and zero fees, arrive in sometimes majestic motor homes.
Related links:
- Slab City
- Slab City website
- Portraits from Slab City, 'The Last Free Place on Earth'. (NPR, 10/3/2012)
- Slab City, Here We Come: Living Life Off the Grid in California's Badlands. (TIME, 2/3/2012)
The even have a library.
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