History of Hippies

[4kayley.]

Usually when you think about hippies you think about the 60's, Woodstock, Summer of Love, Rainbow Gatherings, Grateful Dead, tie-dyed cloths, bell bottom jeans, peace signs and people that love to party. The word "hippie" actually came form the word hipster. It's usually used to refer to the younger bohemian crowd. The hippies are best known from being involved in the 1960's counterculture movement and for protesting the Vietnam War.

The hippies made the Summer of Love which was the summer of 1967 in San Francisco where thousands of young people went to the Haight-Ashbury district of the city to join the hippie experience. Woodstock was also hosted by the hippies. Woodstock was the music festival that brought over 400,000 people to a 600 acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Musicians like the Greatful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were there.

Hippies usually chose to either live a nomadic or cummunal lifestyle feeing theselves from possesions. Hippies join at Rainbow Gatherings every year. These gatherings are at various locations in public lands such as national forests. Hippies try to spread peace and love. They celebrate nature and when they leave, they clean up anyting and everything a group of 20,000 people could have left behind.

[Mr. Bruns]

Interesting!