DO YOUR OWN THING, WHEREVER YOU HAVE TO DO IT AND WHEN-EVER YOU WANT. DROP OUT.

LEAVE SOCIETY AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IT. LEAVE IT UTTER-

LY. BLOW THE MIND OF EVERY STRAIGHT PERSON YOU CAN REACH. TURN THEM ON, IF NOT TO DRUGS, THEN TO BEAUTY, LOVE, HONESTY,

FUN.

THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA’S

FLOWER CHILDREN

TIME MAGAZINEJULY 7, 1967

BASED ON ERIC HOFER’S TRUE BELIEVER

DER WONDERVOGEL

ISLE

OF

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AL

III

THE MUSIC FESTIVAL

CANADA

CANADA

UNITED KINGDOM

VANOUVER

NEWPORT BEACH

WOODINVILLE

DENVER

LEWISVILLE

MILWAUKEE

TORONTO

WHITE LAKE

ATLANTIC CITY

LAUREL

ISLE OF WIGHT

HAMPTON

HALLANDALE

communal living

100,000

300,000

200,000

400,000

EMMETT GROGAN1942-1978

DR. TIMOTHY LEARY1920-1996

KEN KESEY1935-2001

ALLEN GINSBERG1926-1997

“PEOPLE LIKE LEARY HAVE DONE THE BEST THEY CAN TO CHART IT SORT OF UNDERGROUND BUT THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POWERS DO NOT WANT THIS WORLD CHARTED BECAUSE IT THREATENS ESTABLISHED POWERS. IT ALWAYS HAS.”

KEN KESEY IN “COMES SPAKE THE CUCKOO”

“THIS IS JUST SHIT. IT’S HAPPENING. NO BLAME. HAPPENING AND ON THE RISE IT WOULD APPEAR.”

LETTER TO ALLEN GINSBERG

THERE ARE GOING TO BE TIMES WHEN WE CAN’T WAIT FOR SOMEBODY.

THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST

BE OBSERVANT AND TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR PERSPECTIVES

A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS - DRUG USE

INDEPENDENCE AND STRENGTH, BACK AWAY FROM COMMITMENTS

BOB DYLAN1941-

TURN ON, TUNE IN,DROP OUT

NEAL CASSADY1926-1968

WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA - THE IMAGES - CONTROLS THE CULTURE

THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN’

JACK KEROUAC1922-1969

ALDOUS HUXLEY1894-1963

Dr. BENJAMIN SPOCK1903-1998

JIM MORRISON1943-1971

JOHN LENNON1940-1980

JERRY GARCIA1942-1995

JANIS JOPLIN1943-1970

JOAN BAEZ1941-

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS1914-1997

W H O E V E R CONTROLS THE MEDIA, CONTROLS THE MIND.

IF WE HAD ANY NERVE AT ALL, IF WE HAD ANY REAL BALLS AS A SOCIETY, OR WHAT-

EVER YOU NEED, WHATEVER QUALITY YOU NEED, REAL CHARACTER, WE WOULD MAKE AN EFFORT TO REALLY ADDRESS THE WRONGS IN THIS SOCIETY, RIGHTEOUSLY.

ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

PETER COYOTE1942-1978

IF YOU LOOK DOWN AT ME YOU WILL SEE A FOOL; IF YOU LOOK UP AT ME YOU WILL SEE A GOD; IF YOU LOOK STRAIGHT AT ME, YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF.

THE ONLY WAY TO SUPPORT A REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE YOUR OWN.

ABBIE HOFFMAN1936-1989

EVERY REVOLUTION SEEMS IMPOSSI-

BLE AT THE BEGINNING, AND AFTER IT HAPPENS, IT WAS INEVITABLE.

JERRY RUBIN1938-1994

ANGELA DAVIS1944-

I AM NO LONGER ACCEPT-

ING THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE. I AM CHANGING THE THINGS I CANNOT ACCEPT

THE POWER TO DEFINE THE SITUATION IS THE ULTIMATE POWER.

“YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE GROOVING AS HARD AS YOU CAN ALL THE TIME.”

STEPHEN GASKIN1935-2014

“THE TIME HAS COME, EVERYBODY LIE DOWN SO YOU WON’T GET HURT WHEN THE SUN BURSTS”

BERNARDINE DOHRN1944-

BILL AYERS1944-

NOAM CHOMSKY1928-

over all, many of society’s values are a cesspool

PAUL KRASSNER1932-

DAN GEORGAKAS1938-

CHARLES MANSON1934-

“THEY WERE A GENERATION UTTERLY SEPERATED FROM THEIR PARENTS BY THE UNBREAKABLE GAP OF ACID.”

SAN FRANCISCO

MARIN COUNTY

ALTAMONT SPEEDWAY

LOS ANGELES

SAN JOSE

the music

THE BEAT GENERATION

LSD ADVOCATES

PERFORMERS

COMMUNES

THE DIGGERS

CHICAGO 7

WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND

BLACK PANTHERS

REJECTION OF RECEIVED STANDARDS

INNOVATIONS IN STYLE

USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS

PEACEFUL REVOLUTION

BROKE AWAY FROM RESTRICTIONS IN SOCIETY

DESIRED CHANGED

VIOLENT REVOLUTION

“FORTUNATE” SONS

PEACE, LOVE & BROTHER- HOOD ANARCHISM, RADICAL & VIOLENT

w a n d e r i n g b i r dT H E H I P P I E M O V E M E N T O F T H E

1 9 6 0 ’ S A C T U A L LY H A S I T ’ S R O O T S

I N G E R M A N Y. D E R N W O N D E R V O -

G E L W A S A M O V E M E N T O F Y O U T H

G R O U P S T H A T S T A R T E D I N T H E

L A T E 1 9 T H C E N T U R Y. T H E I R I D E A

W A S T O S H A K E O F F T H E R E S T R I C -

T I O N S A N D G E T B A C K T O N A T U R E

A N D F R E E D O M .

A F T E R W W I I , T H E S E G R O U P S W E R E

O U T L A W E D A N D M A N Y P R A C T I -

T I O N E R S I M M I G R A T E D T O T H E

W A R M C L I M A T E O F C A L I F O R N I A

W H E R E T H E Y C O U L D C O N T I N U E

T H E I R F A R M I N G P R A C T I C E S .

THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAINM I D D L E - C L A S S Y O U N G P E O P L E

G R O W I N G U P I N T H E L A T E 1 9 5 0 ’ S

F E LT T H A T T H E Y D I D N O T F I T I N T O A C C E P T E D S O C I E T Y.

N O T O N LY D I D T H E I R F U T U R E

S E E M P L A N N E D O U T F O R T H E M ,

W I T H O F F I C E J O B S F O R T H E M E N

A N D M O T H E R H O O D A N D H O U S E W -

W O R K F O R T H E W O M E N , B U T

T H O S E F U T U R E S A L S O S E E M E D

B O R I N G A N D S U F F O C A T I N G .

THE V IETNAM WAR EXPANDED

IN THE 1960S . YOUNG MEN WERE

BE ING DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY

WITH NO OTHER CHOICE . YOUNG

PEOPLE WANTED THE IR PEACE

AND PERSONAL FREEDOM EVEN

MORE .

JFK IS SHOTNOV 22 1 963

BEATLEMANIA LANDSBEATLEMANIA H IT THE UNITED STATES

HARD. APPROXIMATELY 74 MILL ION

PEOPLE WATCHED THEIR F IRST APPEAR-

ANCE ON ED SULL IVAN. THE DEMAND

FOR L IVE PERFOR-

MANCES FROM THE

QUARTET LED TO

THE B IRTH OF WHAT

WE KNOW AS “STA-

DIUM ROCK”

WE’RE ALL HUMAN BE-IN(S)

PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT

CULTURAL DECENTRALIZATION

COMMUNAL L IV ING

ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS

HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

ILL IC IT DRUG USE

RADICAL L IBERAL CONSIC IOUSNESS

REJECTION OF THE

“M IDDLE-CLASS MORALITY”

INTUIT IVE SPONTANEITY.

HUMAN BE- INS FOCUSED ON THE

KEY IDEAS OF THE DEVELOPING

COUNTER CULTURE ; FROM THE

USE OF PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS TO

FREE LOVE AND SEX .

THE F IRST BE- IN WAS IN RE-

SPONSE TO LSD BE ING MADE

ILLEGAL IN 1966 . THE EVENT SAW

30,000 PEOPLE CROWD THE

HAIGHT ASHBURY D ISTRICT OF

SANFRANCISCO.

A GENERATION OF CHANGE

A NUMBER OF THE SOCIAL INFLUENCES CHANGED WHAT POPULAR MUSIC WAS AND ENDED UPGIVING BIRTH TO THE DIVERSITY THAT WE EXPERIENCE WITH MUSIC TODAY.

the other side

THE ACID TESTS WERE A SERIES OF PARTIES HELD BY KEN KESEY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CENTERED ENTIRELY AROUND THE USE OF, AND ADVOCACY OF LSD. KESEY TOOK THESE PARTIES TO PUBLIC AREAS AND ADVERTISED THEM WITH POSTERS THAT READ “can you pass the acid test?”

A DROP CITY HOME

IN THE 1960S THERE WAS A SURGE IN THE “BACK-TO-THE-LAND” MOVEMENT. PEOPLE WANTED TO GIVE UP THEIR LIVES AND MOVE TO THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO LIVE OFF THE LAND WITH PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THE SAME.

STEPHEN GASKIN, A PROFESSOR AT THE TIME, SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT HIS VISION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IN HIS CARAVAN OF BUSSES WITH LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS. EVEN-

TUALLY HE ANS HIS GROUP SETTLED ON THE FARM IN TENNES-

SEE, ONE OF THE LONGEST STANDING AND SUCCESSFUL COMMUNES.

OTHER FAMOUS COMMUNES INCLUDE DROP CITY AND

STRAWBERRY FIELDS.

THE ACID TESTS

THE FARM

STRAWBERRY FIELDSDROP CITY

STRAWBERRY FIELDS

MONTEREY

RUSSIANHILL

FISHERMAN’SWHARF

NORTHBEACH

MARINA

PACIFICHEIGHTS

CHINATOWN

NOBHILL

FINANCIALDISTRICT

SOUTH OFMARKET

RICHHMOND

SEACLIFF LAURELHEIGHTS

WESTERN ADDITION

SAN FRANCISCO WAS THE EPICEN-

TER OF THE SOCIAL EARTHQUAKE THAT WAS THE HIPPIE REVOLU-

TION.

YOUNG PEOPLE WERE ATTRACTED TO THE

CHEAP, VICTORIAN HOUSES THAT LINED THE STREETS WITH THOUSANDS FLOCKING TO THE CITY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR DISSATISFACTION WITH SOCIETY

THE PANHANDLE

THE FILMORE

AVALON BALLROOM

SUMMER OF LOVETHE HAIGHT-ASHBURY DISTRICT WAS THE PLACE TO BE DURING THE SUMMER OF LOVE IN 1967. THERE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN AS MANY AS 100,000 HIPPIES THAT CON-

VERGED ON THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

MUSIC FESTIVALS, BE- IN’S DEMONSTRA-

TIONS, CONCERTS AND DRUG-THEMED EVENTS WERE HAPPENING EVERY DAY WITH WITNESS TO A GROWING SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION.

SAN

FRANCISCO

PSYCHEDELIC ROCK WAS INCREDIBLY POPULAR DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1960S. THE INTENTION WAS TO ENHANCE THE EXPERIENCE

OF THE LISTENERS WHO WERE U S I N G LSD OR OTHER DRUGS. LYRICS WERE STRANGE AND THE

LYRICS WERE STRANGER.

PROTEST ROCK WAS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE MUSIC SCENE. CURRENT EVENTS BECAME A MAJOR INFLUENCE AND MANY SONGS WERE WRIT- TEN IN PROTEST TO THE VIETNAM WAR, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND OTHER EVENTS.

AS DEMONSTRATIONS INCREASED, VIOLENT CLASHES ETWEEN PROTES-

TORS AND MILITARY INCREASED AS WELL.

“THESE DIFFERENG PERSPECTIVES MIRRORED WIDE-

SPREAD 1960S SOCIETAL TENSIONS THAT TENDED

TO FLOW ALONG GENERATIONAL LINES REGARDING

THE WAR IN VIETNAM, RACE RELATIONS, SEXUAL

CUSTOMS, WOMEN’S RIGHTS, TRADITIONAL MODES

OF AUTHORITY, EXPERIMENTATION WITH PSYCHE-

DELIC DRUGS AND OPPOSING INTERPRETATIONS OF

THE AMERICAN DREAM.”

2 KILLED 12 INJURED

JACKSON STATE

4 KILLED 9 INJURED

KENT STATE

3 KILLED 28 INJURED

ORANGEBURG

1 KILLED 500 INJURED

HARLEM RIOT 1964

34 KILLED 1,032 INJURED

WATTS RIOTS 1965

43 KILLED 1,189 INJURED

HARLEM RIOT 1964

ANTIWARRACE RIOTSPOLITICAL

6 KILLED ? INJURED

WEATHERMEN UNDERGROUND

MUSIC FESTIVALS WERE AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PART OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT. FESTIVALS THAT INCLUD-

ED BANDS WHO SHAPED THE VALUES OF HIPPIE IDEOLOGY WERE SURE TO BRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER FOR ONE THING; TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT.

CALIFORNIA NEW YORK

going furthurIN 1964, KEN KESEY PURCHSED T A SCHOOL BUS TO CARRY HIM AND HIS “MERRY PRANKSTERS” ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, FILMING THEIR COUNTERCULTURE ADVENTURES AS THEY WENT.

WITH NEAL CASSADY AS THE DRIVER, FURTHUR STARTED OFF IN LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA TO END UP IN NEW YORK FOR THE PUBLICATION OF KESEY’S LATEST NOVEL.

THE PASSENGERS OF FURTHER WERE HEAVILY FUELED BY PROLIFIC PSYCHEDELIC DRUG USE.

THE BUS WOULD LATER HEAD TO AN ANTI-VIETNAM WAR RALLY IN 1966 AND WOODSTOCK IN 1969.

SARAH LAMOUREUX

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