War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.

The hippie movement was a sort of mass hallucination powered by radical optimism; an optimism that, half a century on, it is not only difficult but a little embarrassing to believe anyone ever ...

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 ...

Prospective hippies came from everywhere for one “summer of love” or maybe longer, some older folk to indulge their latent hippie tendencies, and the police to contain, survey, or arrest.

The hippie icon Wave Gravy epitomizes the myth of the flower-children as being far more revolutionary than they actually were. Getty Images American schoolbooks often employ romanticized language ...

The hippie love for granola, a woodstock story. Posted: December 14, 2024 | Last updated: December 14, 2024. The story of how granola became synonymous with hippie culture at the iconic Woodstock ...

It was only a matter of time before some enterprising head decided to combine the hippie love of things rural with the prospect of easy cash. Early this summer, John H. (“Ian”) Fralich, 18, ...

LAPEER, MI – Hippies descended upon Lapeer dressed in rainbow bell bottom jeans and handmade crystal jewelry. For the sixth year, Magickal Michigan Events organized the Peace, Love, and Hippies ...