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The tradition of hippie festivals began in the United States in 1965 with Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, where the Grateful Dead played under the influence of LSD and initiated psychedelic jamming. For the next several decades, many hippies and neo-hippies became part of the Deadhead and Phish Head communities, attending music and art festivals held ...
The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
The hippie trail (also the overland [1]) was an overland journey taken by members of the hippie subculture and others from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s [2] travelling from Europe and West Asia through South Asia via countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, [3] India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh to Thailand.
A hippie, also spelled hippy, [1] especially in British English, [2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the mid-1960s to early 1970s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States and spread to different countries around the world. [3]
The Plumas County Sheriff's Office is warning attendees to the upcoming Rainbow Family Gathering that there will be a 'zero-tolerance policy toward any illegal activities or behaviors.'
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson campaigned to become Sherriff of Aspen, Colorado as part of the "Freak Power" movement, and used this symbol to represent Freaks The freak scene was originally a component of the bohemian subculture which began in California in the mid-1960s, associated with (or part of) the hippie movement.
It's been an interesting start to the year ... Meghan participated in a keynote panel for the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. "Whether you’re a 9 year old girl or a ...