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Sharing The Love: How Other Folks Are Remembering Summer ‘67

6/29/07, 4:49 pm EST


As you may have noticed, Rolling Stone has a lot to say about the Summer of Love. We’re commemorating that cuturally rich period with a special double issue, exclusive audio from archived interviews and Web features like our interactive map. But it turns out we’re not the only ones psyched about ‘67. Check out how the Summer of Love is being remembered elsewhere:

  • Heard enough about San Francisco? New York magazine sheds light on the Big Apple’s own Summer of Love and East Coast hippies.
  • Until September 16, New York’s Whitney museum is hosting an exhibit of paintings, films, fashion and photographs called “Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era” (an audio tour podcast can be found on the site).

[Photo: Getty]


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Mankind | 7/2/2007, 9:51 am EST

How many Idiots can post here, and for free?

Too Many!

Normal | 6/30/2007, 2:14 pm EST

Take a shower you damn hippies! You smell like crap!

TLL | 6/30/2007, 1:36 am EST

For classic concert, culture and true fun accounts from ‘66 thru ‘75 archived by someone whose heart and soul couldn’t have been in a better place than in my late teens in the late ‘60; please google: “Nosebleed Or Front Row” then click on “Nosebleed Or Front Row, I Just Want To See The Show!” (book)
“Set One” w/extras, is available now as a free download! Enjoy!

The Idiot Bastard Son | 6/29/2007, 11:35 pm EST

My hair is getting good in the back!

Cheesecrop | 6/29/2007, 7:46 pm EST

See what I mean! I’ve learned so little from my ex-boomer teachers that I spelled “first” wrong in that last post! I’ll just write it off to the acid.

Cheesecrop | 6/29/2007, 7:44 pm EST

The hippies will never get over themselves. You often hear the phrase “learn from your elders”. This is impossible here because the hippies are the fist generation so utterly absorbed w/ themselves that the necessary 2 way line of communication can never be properly achieved.

dishwater | 6/29/2007, 7:23 pm EST

When will the hippies get over themselves? I love ’60s music as much as the next dude…but it wasn’t what everyone remembers it to be.

Check Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” for a portrayl of Haight/Ashbury as the home of a lot of confused kids more interested in scoring LCD than changing the world and her follow up essay “The White Album” for a profile of the massive hangover that LA felt in the wake of that period of irresponsibility and excess.

Sure, people wore flowers in their hair..but then they took ‘em out and went after the big bucks…for example, check the first few issues of RS and compare them to today’s Britney Spears covers, where ‘free love’ is making sure the women wear as little clothing as possible while schilling the manufactured products ‘hippies’ allegedly railed against…all while another war rages outside the country and nobody really cares.

Hurdy Gurdy Man | 6/29/2007, 5:46 pm EST

Why is Donovan not mentioned in any of the interactive features on this website? Not only did he epitomize the movement but he pioneered it. Also, his philosophy hasn’t changed. Beauty is God. A philosophy the hippies took from Shelly and from Byron. Maybe next issue, you could do a service to the world of music by having a piece on Donovan, as he is in danger of being forgotten.

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