thousands attend utah counterculture fest

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/thousands-attend-utah-counterculture-fest


Alise Moore and her son Erin Moore sit next to a campfire at the beginning of the trail leading to the Rainbow Family campsites Tuesday, July 1, 2014, in the Uinta National Forest, Utah. About 4,000 members of a counterculture group known as the Rainbow Family have poured into the woods about 60 miles east of Salt Lake City for an annual festival that culminates in a four-day celebration beginning Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

UINTA NATIONAL FOREST, Utah (AP) — A graying man clad in a towering rainbow top hat and neon sunglasses raised a sunflower high above his head in a circle of three dozen listeners.

"The thing about rainbows, the thing about this place, the thing about these people," he said Tuesday before handing the flower to the next speaker, "is love."

The man known here as Glowing Feather is one of more than 4,000 who have trekked to the annual Rainbow Family gathering about 60 miles east of Salt Lake City.

The group includes train hoppers, students, lawyers, architects and others, members say. It has convened every year since 1972, sometimes in two states at once. Its members join in prayers for peace, sing-a-longs, drum circles that pulse till dawn and unkempt free-spiritedness that has irked some residents in neighboring Heber City.

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1. If you are going to hold an event like that,

I can't think of a better state to do it in than Utah home of the homophobic Mormon cult that can't wait to make its beliefs the secular law of the land.

Spread the love.

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2. Thanks to all who attended