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Graying hippie lives in treehouse in urban Miami neighborhood
AP ^
| August 9, 2007
| KELLI KENNEDY
Posted on 08/09/2007 8:12:38 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MIAMI -- This graying hippie makes the nightly, winding climb 18 feet to her cozy bedroom. She wakes to roosters' crows and the scents of dewy soil. Over breakfast, her view is a jungle of towering trees, no hint of concrete civilization.
Shawnee Chasser lives in a treehouse above a secret garden in the middle of Miami. For 15 years, she has lived atop the 1.5-acre nirvana of green trees and farm animals behind a row of houses 10 minutes from downtown.
Neighbors come for potlucks, drum circles and weekly volleyball games. Tenants who rent the extra bedrooms hang out in the open kitchen. It is exactly the peaceful paradise Chasser envisioned when her brother and others built the three-story treehouse months before Hurricane Andrew devastated the area in 1992.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: hippie; hippies; miami
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Maybe this is what Queen Hillary had in mind with the funding of a museum for hippies.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I thought it was a report concerning the unemployed owner of liberty post....(chuckle)
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:13:37 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
There isn’t enough Lysol to make me want to come anywhere near there.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:13:58 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
museum for hippies. I thought that was his presidential library.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:14:35 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
When exactly did mental illness become celebrated in this country?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:14:55 AM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The generation given everything, that refused to grow up.
No wonder the country has the problems we have.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:15:46 AM PDT
by
Vision
("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
To: dfwgator
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Sounds pretty cool actually. Too bad there are no pictures of the treehouse.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:15:53 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Weird, kinda neat story. I’d hoped that most of the hippies would be dead by now. You’d think so with all of the drugs and STDs. But I guess they’ll be gone soon enough.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:17:17 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Start playing a Slayer CD really loud - that will run them off!
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:17:56 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:18:59 AM PDT
by
Vision
("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
To: KosmicKitty
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Neighbors come for potlucks, drum circles ...
Mmmm-mmm - I can just smell the matted armpit hair and fungus-infested toe jam from here.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
What I never understood about hippies (neo or paleo) is the utter selfishness of their existence. What do they do, really, to make the world a better place? Do they honestly think that sitting around a drum circle, chanting about peace while smoking pot will really help feed a starving kid or clean up the trash on the streets.. I guess that really is the core of liberalism, apathy.. not doing something yourself, just complaining someone else (ie, the government) isn’t doing it..
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:21:11 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
To: Jaysun
But I guess theyll be gone soon enough. Not soon enough for me.
L
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:21:52 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
To: L98Fiero
Pardon me for asking, but why are you harshing on this lady? She’s paying her bills and taxes, which gives her the right to live in a treehouse if she damn well wants to. Aren’t you guys always crowing about our right as Americans to live the way we please on our own land?
I can’t stand hippies either, but different strokes, fella. She pays her own way and isn’t hurting anybody as far as I can see. If she wants to perch in a tree, that’s her business, and I’m damn sure not going to criticize her for it.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:22:49 AM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Jaysun
Bill, Hillary, Kerry, etc. These ARE the hippies from the 60s. They are alive and well and will be running the entire Federal government in 2008.
Face it. The Federal government is now the enemy of the people. Its as if the spirit of Huey Long was reborn in Hillary and the rest of the Dems.
Prepare for 8 years of darkness with social and economic rot when Hillary wins the Presidency. If you think voter fraud has been bad in the past, wait until the True Believers come out in force for Her Majesty.
To: reagan_fanatic
Potlucks, drum circles, treehouses ... I never realized the little B.C. mountain community I live in had so much in common with Miami!
One big difference - winter.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:24:24 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: reagan_fanatic
Here is a picture of their 'tree house'.. I have a feeling armpits aren't the only thing that smells.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:25:06 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
To: B-Chan
“Shes paying her bills and taxes, which gives her the right to live in a treehouse if she damn well wants to.”
Lots of us pay our taxes, go to work and do all we can to raise a good family and good kids to be productive citizens. When we start to get the kind of ink these tree-dwelling kooks get, I’ll ease up.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:26:47 AM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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