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Rainbow Family Scouts Gathering Site

Posted by DFO

Sept. 7, 2010 1:42 p.m. • 3 comments

During cool nights in the Colville National Forest, many Rainbow Family followers sleep around campfires. About 300 Rainbows are attending this regional gathering, but a national gathering next year could attract thousands to a Washington state forest. Story here. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)

Question: Do you view the Rainbow Family as free spirits who stayed true to the 1960s flower children culture? Or a band of counterculture hippies who never grew up?

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