Hippies from A to Z
by Skip Stone
Famous Hippies, Friends and Enemies.
The following list of people includes those who influenced or were part
of the hippy movement as well as those who sought to repress it. Some of… Continue reading →

Hippies from A to Z

by Skip Stone

Hippy Philosophy and the Hippy Dream

We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Joni Mitchell/CS&N (Woodstock)

So what do hippies want anyway? What… Continue reading →

Hippies from A to Z

by Skip Stone

The Young Hippies

There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.

John Phillips/Scott McKenzie (San Francisco)

I was very surprised to find when I started Hippyland that I wasn’t
just attracting old… Continue reading →

Hippies from A to Z

by Skip Stone

Landmark Hippy Events

Part II

This chapter reviews some of the major events of the hippie movement.
These events defined the nature, objectives and results of our counter-cultural
assault on the establishment.… Continue reading →

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Aquarius from the play Hair *

The Hippy Movement was less of a movement and more of an unseen force that permeated the minds and hearts of hippies around the world.… Continue reading →

The same costume will be …amusing 30 years after its time.

James Laver

At the risk of seeming trite, we shall now delve into the superficial
world of hippy fashions. Please bear with me as you will see it leads… Continue reading →

What really distinguishes this generation. . . is its determination
to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.

Hannah Arendt (1972)

The popular stereotype of hippies describes them as lazy,… Continue reading →

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned. Bob Dylan (Rainy Day Women nos. 12 & 35) In the 1960s the hippies, en masse, undertook the largest uncontrolled experiment with drug use in the history of… Continue reading →

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth, but it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard. We cripple ourselves with lies. Most people have no idea of what they’re missing, our society places a… Continue reading →