How does it feel to be a 3rd generation native in a community that started as a base for mining camps and evolved into the granola, health, environmentally involved center of the "People's Republic of Boulder" that it is today....
Not many people know that Boulder became what is is today because of the clash of the Hippies and the Rednecks in 1968 and they fought til 1972...yes Boulder was a redneck community with a communist campus (at least that's what the truckers said).
In 1967 the world was going to come to an end and the only place safe was the mountains so truck loads of the young, non conformist flocked to Boulder. I know, I met them at the west end of Gross Reservoir, building a raft too see if they could find civilization....I was 11 and thought they were idiots......anyway the hard core hippies blended in to the hills...Nederland, Coal Creek Canyon, Lyons. The not so radical stayed and created Celestial Seasonings, White Wave .....Everybody Lmtd....Wild Oats.......and this is the beginning story of how Boulder/Louisville became such an elite place to live today...... Carrie :-)
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