At the Oregon Country Fair, there are fairies and gnomes walking around in colorful costumes. A 40-person marching band also bursts out of nowhere and plays down a path. “Feels like you stepped into a ...
In “The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” longtime Grateful Dead publicist and cultural historian Dennis McNally traces the unlikely evolution of American ...
The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...
In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...
Something strange keeps happening to me on tour for my new book The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Leary, the brilliant, fearless woman who helped shape the psychedelic revolution from behind the ...
The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...
After putting up 16 runs in yesterday's blowout win, the Ducks got a taste of their own medicine after Illinois bounced back with 16 runs in... Drum circles on campus lawns, hookahs in residence halls ...