Has anyone visited this place or know someone who knew someone who lived there for any amount of time?
i have a friend that lives there now. have you checked out there website? twinoaks.org i think that's the right link...
When we lived in a Catholic Worker community in Ontario, we met a woman who had been there and only had good things to say about Twin Oaks. I have always wanted to go to the Women's Conference but as yet have not gotten there...may be some day!
I went to the annual 'Communities Conference' held there several years ago, and that was after reading all of the books written about the place and talking to folks there. I was seriously considering applying for membership there, but my life went in a different direction. What did you want to know about it? I can tell you that it has a great, peaceful overall feeling, but it's not a classic 'hippie commune' if that's what you're looking for. It's a great example of alternative living though, and impressive in itself (the oldest successful 'intentional community' in the US).
twin oaks also has a sister site very near them called acorn community. twinoaks.org has the links n vice versa for acorn...
Acorn struck me as very cool also (but not set up to handle many folk at the time I was there... quite a number of years ago). They strive to have a more... 'relaxed' atmosphere than Twin Oaks.
I've visited both Twin Oaks and Acorn. They are both really beautiful,very different from each other in that Acorn is just a tiny place while TO has like 100 members and many different buildings housing smaller groups. The annual communities conference is coming up and that really is a terrific opportunity not just to get a feel for twin oaks but to meet people from lots of communities and learn more.
