Yellow Springs, Ohio, 2021
Southwest Ohioans call Yellow Springs a hippie town. My mother lived there and attended Antioch College in the 1960s and loved it.
In my experience, it is a diverse, tolerant, friendly, open, and happy community where even stray cats are well-fed and provided with health care by the residents. The only thing "Springers" will not tolerate is intolerance and bigotry. Oh, and large corporate entities. The village has no Walmart, for example.
According to Wikipedia, in 1862, it welcomed a group of 30 freed slaves previously owned by Moncure D. Conway, the abolitionist son of their former owner.
By the late 1960s and early '70s, the village became a center of activity for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement in southwestern Ohio.
In 1979, Yellow Springs held the distinction of being the smallest municipality to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. As of 2014, it had the largest LGBT population of all Ohio's villages.
I love this town and its people.
Technical details:
Camera: Canon EOS 3
Lens: EF 40mm f/2.8 STM
Film: ColorPlus 200
Developed and scanned by Memphis Film Lab
Yellow Springs, Ohio, 2021
Southwest Ohioans call Yellow Springs a hippie town. My mother lived there and attended Antioch College in the 1960s and loved it.
In my experience, it is a diverse, tolerant, friendly, open, and happy community where even stray cats are well-fed and provided with health care by the residents. The only thing "Springers" will not tolerate is intolerance and bigotry. Oh, and large corporate entities. The village has no Walmart, for example.
According to Wikipedia, in 1862, it welcomed a group of 30 freed slaves previously owned by Moncure D. Conway, the abolitionist son of their former owner.
By the late 1960s and early '70s, the village became a center of activity for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement in southwestern Ohio.
In 1979, Yellow Springs held the distinction of being the smallest municipality to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. As of 2014, it had the largest LGBT population of all Ohio's villages.
I love this town and its people.
Technical details:
Camera: Canon EOS 3
Lens: EF 40mm f/2.8 STM
Film: ColorPlus 200
Developed and scanned by Memphis Film Lab