But I haven't completely forgotten Hippyland!  As you may have noticed, Hippyland has just been upgraded to a new dynamic site which allows us to provide so much more interactivity, search capability and many more features which we couldn't do on the old site.

In fact all our websites have gone interactive this year, and in the last month they've all been moved to a new server with much more capacity and speed (I hope you noticed!).  We now do over 40 gigabytes of traffic a month, which is a hell of a lot considering most of it is just text!

Anyway, you can look forward next year to many new, interesting features on Hippyland including my book, Hippies From A to Z, which will appear online for all to see!  We're starting to run out of copies (better order soon!), so I figure rather than reprint it, I could just let everyone read it online and save a bunch of trees and lots of money for everyone!  But if enough people ask for it, I may reprint it anyway!

The New Hippyland
As you can see the new site presents information a bit differently than the old one.  If you can't find what you're seeking, please check out the search function first.  It'll search the whole site to find what you need.  But realize that we haven't got all of the old Hippyland into the new format yet.  That will take months!  So I'm leaving the old stuff up for you via the purple pull-down menu system.

Some of the great new features to come include an interactive Hippy Calendar, an archive of articles and information on the 60s (this project will be ongoing), an interactive review system that will allow our members to post music, book and movie reviews, featured interviews with famous personalities, original works by published authors, and much, much more!

And best of all we are still keeping all this content FREE! (which is a hell of a lot of work to produce and post online).   The past year has seen so many Internet businesses fail or come close to failing.  We too have seen our small revenues sink further and have had to develop new sources and take on outside work to keep these sites alive.

Fortunately, thanks to the support of many Hippylanders, we are sliding by, but our overhead has increased dramatically thanks to the new servers and our continuing hunger for high bandwidth to keep all our visitors (old and new) happy.  So all we ask is that you support the site by shopping in our stores.  That's all!  We get a tiny percentage of those sales, and that keeps these sites goin'.  So if the store where you make a purchase says "Hip" something (or links to Amazon.com),  you are supporting this site.

May Peace come to all & soon!
Skip Stone
December, 2001