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Walt Odets. “Drop City Revisited.” In
Richard Fairfield, Ed., Utopia U.S.A. San Francisco: Alternatives
Foundation, 1972.
Walt Odets describes the terrible summer heat, the hapless tourists,
and the peace the community found in their domed world set against bright
Colorado sunsets.
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DROP CITY
Drop City, so named for Droppers, a group of
friends who amused themselves by “throwing cans of garbage and
water and balloons out the windows” in
Kansas City, grew on a remote patch of southeastern Colorado beginning
in May, 1965. Its credo states:
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We are trying to be instruments
of the cosmic forces working within the order of nature. We believe
that earth, air, fire, and water belong to everyone and can’t
be bought or sold, or owned. We are total revolutionaries; we are
free men living equally with free creatures in a free universe. |
The
story of Drop City will never end. It’s the story of man on the
road to be free.
Inspired and encouraged by Buckminster Fuller, the Droppers build geodesic
domes from trashed automobile hoods and roofs.
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