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 ...
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Inside the birth of the hippie movement: An exclusive excerpt from Dennis McNally’s ‘The Last Great Dream’
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, ...
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It’s Time We Took Hippie Women Seriously
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. ...
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