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View ArticleHippie Halloween
Hippie Halloween recalls what Halloween started with – the night before All Saints Day. We have plenty of hippie saints to remember. Great ones who died far too early.The legend you're looking at above...
View ArticleMen's Hippie Clothes
Here's my look at Men's Hippie Clothes. The situation is odder than odd because they guys all seem to want to not quite commit. Typical, I admit, but not so much with clothes.There's an extreme...
View ArticleHippie Symbols and Peace Signs
Here's my update on Hippie Symbols and Peace Signs, my look at the the historic trends that affected symbols from the hippie movement as they exist today. The circular peace sign with a geometric...
View ArticleHippie Bum
A story to remember while those of us who lived it are still here. Hippie Bum is a counterpoint to the mass media noise that tries to obscure the truth about the hippie movement being one of...
View ArticleHippie Bum, My Life And Times
Hippie Bum, My Life And Times as protestor that Richard Nixon claimed made my friends and me bums.Riled by protests about the horror we'd created in Vietnam, the president labeled us "hippie bums,"...
View ArticleHippie Costumes For Men | Men's Hippie Costume
Hippie Costumes For Men, why it takes more than clothes to make a hippie.Costume parties come up, and dressing like a hippie can be fun. It can also be very easy. Wigs can add to the outfit, and...
View ArticleHippie Peace Freaks | Hippies Love Peace
Hippie Peace Freaks | Hippies Love Peace is my story about a passion for peace that has never cooled. In the Sixties, we had a vision of a better world. Maybe we could curb the military-industrial...
View ArticleHippie Philosophy
Before it all gets lost in the flood of mass media misinformation, I thought I'd better get something down about my Hippie Philosophy and how it reflected all we learned from what happened in the late...
View ArticleWhat Are The Best Hippie Books
When we talk about hippie books, we don't have a lot of ground to cover. Maybe because it was so heavily focused on music and politics, the hippie movement never produced a lot of writers, not...
View ArticleWavy Gravy, Woodstock and Sixties Counterculture
Who Is Wavy Gravy?Who Is Wavy Gravy?Born Hugh Romney, he was born again (but not in the Christian way) at Woodstock, simultaneous with the hippie movement which, as his bio shows, he's played a big...
View ArticleThe Real Greatest Generation? Hippies In The 1960s
Hippies In The 1960sHippies in the 1960s , my generation, marked the real Greatest Generation with a tattoo of freedom, stuck with shoving Tom Brokaw's generation out of the way before they got World...
View ArticleRemembering The Hippie Poster Shops of A Fading Era
Hippie Posters ShopBy the time I arrived in New York to stay, all the original hippies were gone. Hippie posters in the head shops along Bleeker, West Fourth and scattered elsewhere around the East...
View ArticleWhat Everybody Ought To Know About Peace Signs, Hippies and Their Symbols
Hippies Symbols From The MovementHippie Symbols were our private language, their meanings original wherever we went. Things were changing, and we knew we were catalysts, pulling the world toward...
View ArticleWhy Crazy Old Nixon Called Us Hippie Bums
Shame on us, we thought his war in Southeast Asia was illegal and immoral. When we said so, that made us hippie bums.To most Americans now, the War in Vietnam is looked back on as a terrible mistake,...
View ArticleHere's To Phil Ochs. He Ain't Marching Anymore
Remembering Phil Ochs is complicated. The Phil I remember was a fierce advocate for peace and civil rights in song. The Phil I never knew until I read his biography is the burnout alcoholic who...
View ArticleLiving the Hippie Philosophy
What do you think? Is a philosophy worth anything, if you don't live it?Any real hippie philosophy is heavy on freedom, freedom to be who you discover you are, freedom to love who and how you chose,...
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