Tag: hippies
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Back on the Road: On the Hippie Trail – Part II
A few months ago, we featured a collection of books that spoke of the 1960s-70s hippie trail. Life on the road, living the hippie life. Flower power. Free love, peace, drugs and not necessarily in that order. The hippie phenomenon is, for us, endlessly fascinating and books written on the subject allow us to live…
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On the Hippie Trail – Part I
For most of us, the word ‘hippie’ is associated with images from the 1960s-70s, of Westerners – long-haired white men and women – clad in semi-tattered psychedelic clothing, smoking weed, chilling out on the beaches of Goa, dancing to their own beat and generally not giving a damn. An article from the July 7, 1967…