The Weekly Standard, “Flowers in Their Hair”
byCoyote — he chose the name after he saw coyote tracks in the snow; he was high at the time — is the most…
the diggers
The Week, “Sex, drugs, and the Summer of Love”
byIn Haight-Ashbury, there were groups such as the Family Dog, who lived communally and did much to popularize the fashion for long hair and…
The Arts Desk, “Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World review – the weird and wonderful roots of the Sixties counterculture”
byActor Peter Coyote had some splendid anecdotes about his time with the anarchist performance troupe the Diggers, who deplored property ownership and opened a…
The Island Now, “Going Places Near and Far… Come to San Francisco for 50th Anniversary Celebration of Summer of Love – Be Prepared to Be Blasted into the Past”
byOne day, The Diggers gave away free food on the steps of City Hall, which enraged San Francisco’s mayor. “’We are not a charity,’…