I want to feel as peaceful as flowers. I want to move as freely as the wind. I want to see the world through the eyes of every person and creature I come across. Some people say these yearnings ...

Most of us aging hippies are now too old to march in protest of the backward progression of rights we fought fiercely for, and won.

4/20 at Hippie Hill is a San Francisco tradition said to date back to the1970's. Each year, tens of thousands of people organically arrive from all over to celebrate the use of Cannabis. This years ...

Aside from that, it was a free-for-all from the moment the Diggers opened the doors to the Free Store Thursday nigh. Even when the storefront, at 264 East 10th Street, had filled to capacity, there ...

I spent a lot of time with hippies with I was a young(er!) man, in many parts of the American West, primarily Missoula, Mont. I was even a bit of a hair farmer myself in those days. But these were ...

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 ...

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