60's Hippie Pics - View & Add or Comment

Skip - I went to Hippie.com and it appears to be a work in progress and looks like maybe a German site. How about a little background.

 

Remember this one?

 

Or --

 

Have we done any R. Crumb?

 

Or ---

 

Even in the deep south - my stomping grounds - underground newspapers sprouted. This one came from my hometown of Jackson, Ms. It lasted 4 years. Freedom was alive!!

The Kudzu was a counterculture underground newspaper published in Jackson, Mississippi starting in September 1968.[1] Promising "Subterranean News from the Heart of Ole Dixie" and offering a blend of hip culture and radical politics, it was founded by members of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), a student activist group affiliated with SDS. Founding editors were Cassell Carpenter, David Doggett, and Everett Long, students at Millsaps College in Jackson.[2] Despite harassment by police and city officials it survived until May 1972.[

 

For those who don't know where Kudzu got its name. Kudzu is a non-native weed vine (I think from Korea - where they eat the tubers) but in the Deep South it grows with no natural enemies and chokes out all the other plants. You can see it covering the terrain along the roadside like a green blanket has been laid over the trees and everything.

Supposedly this vine grows so fast that it can entrap a pig sleeping in it. Hence the pig killing vine gave its name to an underground paper.

 

Thank you Shale - I didn't share that but the thought was that kudzu would take over, consume, everything in its path. That was the hope back then for the movement.

 

from 1970-1971

 

the guy had written on the poster: the land belongs to nobody, we have worked it

 

60's commune from Berkshire Mountains.

 

^^^ Well, there's an example of differences then and now - so many people - if you ran into any of those people on the street you'd instantly know she or he was a sister or brother.

 

Sunny Ridge Commune


http://www.sunnyridge.net/commune4.jpg

 

Which one is the FBI infiltrator?

Srsly, I don't know the specifics, but around 1970 my redneck uncle in Mississippi (whom I suspect was in the Klan) and I had something in common.

He was pissed because the FBI was infiltrating the KKK and I was pissed because the FBI was also sneaking into communes.

 

Shale.....?
...a redneck hippie gay klansman? Nahhhh.

 

All photos are so interesting and keep a secret in it. Gosh, Hippies are so beautiful people and their conduct is so charitable. Amazing.

 

Montreal '74

 

Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop