Last week, the Washington Post ran an essay positing that Takoma Park is losing its hippie edge.
According to the Washington Post photo essay:
The city’s corn silo still stands, and it still refuses to buy bottled water, but the community tool library is gone, and a rare exception to its nuclear-free zone ordinance was made last month.
So, residents of The People's Republic, is Takoma Park no long a haven for leftists and granola crunchers?
Sheryl Crow
(BTW, how did the hippies feel about gays? Just askin' A recent Vanity Fair essay on the Summer of Love quoted a female participant as saying "It was a man's world") BTW, it's not technically the "city's corn silo." It's the corn-burning cooperative's silo; the city just insures it. Bottled water? I guess the city doesn't buy that, but from what I was told, following the Azalea Awards recently, drinks were being served in polystyrene cups, which the city also has vowed it wouldn't use. Styrofoam, that is. So much for resolutions.