What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding? That’s the question that we should be asking in light of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. Hippie values and culture have been taking a ...
It’s a scene straight out of the 1960s – long-haired hippies prancing about in the nude, smoking weed, talking about peace and love. Only it’s happening now in the Ocala National Forest, where more ...
The 1960s era of peace, love and music will be evoked in an Appalachian town this weekend. Rockbridge, Ohio, provides a perfectly serene setting for Hippie Fest, said Forest Fields, an event organizer ...
In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their drugs, incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami. Coconut Grove, known ...
When you think of the counterculture, you're not likely to think of Linden or Elizabeth -- two gritty, Jersey cities huddled next to each other, hard against the Arthur Kill. Even today -- 50 years ...
Unlike many things from the 1967 "Summer of Love," the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic survived. The clinic, now part of a larger network, still operates out of a second-floor office overlooking Haight ...
Before there was Woodstock, there was the Sky River Rock Festival. On Labor Day weekend in 1968, nearly a year before Woodstock, tens of thousands of young longhairs gathered on a raspberry farm near ...
In the spring of 1966 Steve Slavin joined a pickup basketball game on a playground in Greenwich Village. Who should show up but Bernie Sanders, his old friend and roommate from Brooklyn College. He ...
What became the defining event of the “free love” 1960s hippie counterculture began as a small business venture. Four entrepreneurs talking about starting a recording studio in New York’s Catskill ...