Although the community privileged a rural, rustic lifestyle with an emphasis on family life, it was also linked to the international avant-garde and the New York City experimental arts scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s. It saw frequent visitors from NYC and became the site of both organized and ad hoc events associated with Fluxus, Happenings, Judson Dance Theater, Expanded Cinema, and intermedia and other movements fostered by interdisciplinary and transitory creative collaboration.
