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Monday, August 22, 2016

The Most Hippie Town in all 50 States

Categories: Media Coverage

Originally published for Thrillist

INDIANA:

Bloomington is typically more identified with the Midwestern, blue-collar ethic of its most famous resident, Johnny Cougar. But lest we forget, this is still a college town, and with that comes a modest, but decent hippie community and certainly the largest in Indiana, with a natural foods co-op, a Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, and a hippie coffee bar at Soma Coffee.

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