hi everyone. I surfed on in. my parents weren't exactly hippies, and I'm older than the majority of people here I think (50 this year)...my aunt was one of the elder folks to make the Haight Ashbury scene, study with Stephen gaskin and travel with the Caravan and settle on the Farm for their first season in Tennessee.

my folks were liberals and my upbringing was a little crazymaking in that , well, the rules kept changing. I can get more into this in a future post.

I volunteered to help keep a nonprofit called the Hippie Museum afloat if we can, because I think there is much that deserves to be honored andstudied in terms of the real contributions that hippie culture made to the larger society. I wrote a piece for a 15 eyar old girl from Norway who was doing a research project on American hippies to that effect.

anway, I look forward to getting to know folks here better and tradiing stories by the campfire. having freinds with hippie parents and being an aspiring hippie myself, and having a hippie aunt who was always pissing ym mother off (she was my dad's sister) gives us PLENTY of background in common.

more to follow, I promise.

peace and blessings...Judith