Hippies Now Welcome In Indiana County After 50-Year-Old Law Repealed

Everyone get into the VW Bus and head towards LaGrange County, Indiana, because hippies are now welcome.

In December, the small county on the Indiana-Michigan border repealed an ordinance that was on the books for 50 years, the News Sun first reported.

“I called it our anti-hippie ordinance,” LaGrange County Commissioner Dennis Kratz told the newspaper

The ordinance didn't outright ban shaggy-haired, peace-loving people. Rather, it was meant to prevent Woodstock-like gatherings in the Midwestern county.

Originally passed in 1971, the law banned gatherings of more than 500 people that lasted at least 12 hours long.

LaGrange County reexamined and repealed the "anti-hippie ordinance" while the county compiled a searchable database of local laws. Other out-of-date laws were also taken off the books, but most of them dealt with traffic signs and rules that no longer exist.

“There were, during that process, lots of things that made us go … ‘what?’ … and so we brought them here periodically,” LaGrange County Attorney Kurt Bachman said.

However, before anyone gets too excited and starts organizing a modern, Midwestern version of Woodstock, Indiana's COVID-19 restrictions have paused most mass gatherings. Currently, most counties are limiting gatherings to no more than 25 or 50 people.

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