Dig the Hippy in May Day, Sunday, May 1, SF, CA

Dig the Hippy in May Day! Sunday, May 1.

Meet at 10 am on the steps of Buena Vista Park on Haight Street at the corner-end of Lyon Street in San Francisco.

Help dig up the Hippy! We will dig up a spoonful of sacred hippy soil from Buena Vista Park, and march with it to the steps of San Francisco City Hall. We will sprinkle the earth on the City Hall steps to fertilize and renew the spirit of the hippy in the City of St. Francis. Bring a hippy poem or a story if you have one, to share either at Buena Vista Park or City Hall. Come as you are.

The Hippy was buried in effigy October 6, 1967, in Buena Vista Park, after the Summer of Love in 1966, when the original hippy message of peace, love, and care for Earth had been changed so much, especially by the media, that many felt that the hippy movement had ÔdiedÕ. But the spirit of the hippy has remained safely underground, as it helps to renew and restore the Earth from its roots.

We will start walking from the Haight Street steps of Buena Vista Park at Lyon St., then weÕll drop down (.1 mi.) to Oak St., turn right and go (1.2 miles) to make a left on Franklin St. (.2 mi.), then right on Grove St. (.2 mi.) down to Polk St., to the Civic Center steps of City Hall, where we will fertilize the city with good hippy earth. Wear good walking shoes. Total distance is about 1.7 miles, which should take less than an hour.

LetÕs fertilize San Francisco with hippy spirit for World Environment Day, June 1-5:

http://www.unep.org/wed/2005/english/index-flash.asp

http://www.wed2005.org/0.0.php

http://www.wed2005.org/wiki/

And remember what James Gallivan said, ÒOld hippies donÕt die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.Ó

We will start our outdoor walk at the Buena Vista Park steps on Haight Street at the corner where Lyon Street stops, and walk from there to the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Polk St., facing the Civic Center Plaza. Wear comfortable walking shoes.