Source: Hubpages.comThe Twelve Tribes: What You Need to Know Updated on May 7, 2014 Who Are the Twelve Tribes? A few years ago some differently dressed people began wandering around my small, isolated upstate city of Oneonta, NY. They bought a building. They parked the coolest-ever looking hippie bus around town. They bought a very…
Source: Cape Cod Times Amy Anthony April 26, 2014 A man recently ordered by a Vermont jury to pay $35 million in damages to a woman he was convicted of sexually assaulting years ago joined the Twelve Tribes religious community in Hyannis to avoid paying the victim, the victim’s attorney alleges. On April 18, after…
Source: Burlington Free Press Sam Hemingway, Free Press Staff Writer 12:13 p.m. EDT April 23, 2014 A Vermont jury has ordered Scott Isaacson, 56, of Hyannis, Mass., to pay $35 million in damages to a 24-year-old woman he is accused of repeatedly molesting in Vermont and elsewhere when she was a young girl. The decision…
Source: Hubpages.com 2014 Updated on January 7, 2014 The Peacemaker Bus Peacemaker Bus Medical Tent at Camp Oswego Phish Concert. | Source The Twelve Tribes: First Impressions When the Twelve Tribes first moved to my city, I had no idea who they were. I noticed a group of groovy looking folks building a restaurant. The…
Source: Lawrence Journal Posted by Chad Lawhorn January 8, 2014 . Maybe some of you have seen the signs advertising a new deli coming to the 600 block of Vermont Street in downtown Lawrence. Maybe some of you even know the backstory. It certainly is an old one — like about 2,000 years old. Plans call…
Source:The Chronicle, Vermont, 17 September 2013 by nataliehormilla In this Chronicle file photo, a Vermont state trooper carries a bundle of wooden rods out of a restaurant owned by the Island Pond community on June 22, 1984. “They’re still at it!” That’s what we said when we read the astounding news that on September…
Source: News cut, 2013 Bob Collins September 14, 2013 Bob Dylan has had a cult-like following ever since he figured out how to get out of Minnesota. Now, however, he has a cult literally following him. The New Yorker’s John Clarke writes today about the Twelve Tribes, a group that actively recruits “heavily inebriated and…
The Village Voice/November 10, 2011 By Rosie Gray Occupy Wall Street is almost two months old, but last night was the first time the Voice had noticed an odd-looking brown bus parked on Liberty across from Zuccotti Park. It kind of looked like a huge ’70s-style RV. A sign on the door read “Welcome. Please…
Samantha Brosseau was raised in a strict Christian commune. At age 18, she decided to run away to escape her oppressive lifestyle and go to college – but leaving wasn’t nearly as simple as she’d hoped. Tonic, California/July 19, 2010 By Lisa DeBenedictis Samantha Brosseau twists her ring around her finger absentmindedly. It consists of…