As blue jeans, beards, body adornments, natural foods, legal marijuana, gay marriage, and single parenthood have gained ...

When the first hippies arrived on Kauai in 1967 from the Mainland United States, they went to Kalalau Valley, but left a short time later, 15 men and women in all, after being warned by Warren ...

SCOTTS VALLEY — Despite its reputation as a natural wildlife preserve for 1960s-style hippies and similarly free-spirited life­style rebels, Santa Cruz County was once, in fact, a quiet, conser­vative ...

BEN LOMOND >> If you’re wondering what it was like to live in a hippie commune in the 1960s, northern California graphic artist Holly Harman wants to tell you about a local one. Harman has written a ...

What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding? That’s the question that we should be asking in light of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. Hippie values and culture have been taking a ...

There are so many amazing hippie movies out there that explore the 1960s counterculture movement. The following three films, though, remain some of the very best. Let’s take a walk through music and ...

Some fun facts about hippie fashion courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts’ eye-popping, psychedelic 1960s fashion showcase “Hippie Chic”: Secret compartments in your metal jewelry could conceal your ...

Are there parallels between the anti-war, hippies of the 1960s and today’s social justice warriors? Are there valuable lessons we can learn from the past, both cultural and spiritual, that will give ...

Cartoonist Jeff Danziger's Teed family is a compilation of three Vermont families he met when he arrived in Vermont in the 1960s. Editor’s note: Jeff Danziger is a cartoonist and writer who has penned ...

For the Stage Right Theatre Company, the rock musical “Hair” isn’t just an anachronistic snapshot of the peace and love era of the 1960s. Cast members in their 20s and 30s are finding parallels ...

When I was a kid my siblings used to tease me about reading the encyclopedia.I didn’t read it so much as get engrossed in a few choice items. I would look up some topic, usually a Civil War general, ...