The post war "baby boom generation" was something of an anomaly both to parents and to the children they would eventually raise. Growing up amid the contradictory conditions of prosperity and paranoia that prevailed during the 1950s, as...

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from texas, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...

Ben Cohen never wears anything but a T-shirt and jeans. The co- founder and chairman of Ben and Jerry's (a company which, by dint of selling huge volumes of chunky, rich and frighteningly addictive ice- cream, is turning over more than the entire economy...

This month, St. Joseph will be the site of a world premiere dinner theater performance by the "Last Hippie in America." During the last two weeks of January, the hippie comedian also known as Jim Wiggins will present his "Reflections of a 60s...

Denmark's government has proposed a plan to regularize housing in a decades-old hippie enclave in the center of Copenhagen. The counterculture oasis _ home to aging hippies, artists, drug addicts and stray dogs _ offers a sharp contrast to the...

Their hair, once a symbol of youthful rebellion, is mostly gray. Bodies that writhed with wild abandon when a guru invited them to "Tune in ... turn on ... drop out" now sport stiff knees and age spots."How many of you are on acid right...

An account of how drug use and the sixties culture affected music, mentioning musicians like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan.

This essay is a description of hippies and the life they lived in the 1960's-1970's.