As far as I know Hippie Hill had never really bothered many of the local townspeople. All that changed last yearβ¦. By Carl R. Hultberg The Rag Blog October 10, What hippie means in NH is long hair and a predilection for the consumption of large quantities of marijuana and beer. In many ways hippie is the same as biker motorcyclist in New Hampshire. Dick Gness has been a local fixture for years in town and he acts as unofficial manager of all things Hippie Hill, as far as anything is ever managed there.
He sells the T shirts with the Hippie Hill logo on them for example. I can say from experience that he sells the best Cabot cheese outside of the state of Vermont, but stay away from the dried meat products in his display case. To say that actually visiting Hippie HIll is a disappointment would be an understatement.
Not really a hill at all, just the old railroad siding with a couple of picnic tables and a horseshoe pit. The hippies like some horseshoes also fall somewhat short of the mark. None the less, Hippie Hill represents an on-going social protest that has been running for over thirty years, a defiant demonstration in favor of public beer drinking, marijuana cultivation, smoking and a host of other USA male identity issues.
As far as I know Hippie Hill has never really bothered many of the local townspeople. Obviously there are some enforcement codes being ignored, but all in all, given the demographic realities at hand, it is probably a good way for the local riff raff to let off some steam playing horseshoes without hurting anyone. Every few years a biker has managed to injure or kill himself trying to do a fancy drunken burnout, but mostly the town has been okay with Hippie Hill.
After all, they always had Dick Gness to look after the flock. They were wrong. Photo courtesy New Hampshire Liquor Commission. The man who made Hippie Hill happen got busted Sunday. Beyond that Dick Gness is also a general benefactor in the town. Got a check but no bank account? Lots of people in town fit that category.
