When I was a kid my siblings used to tease me about reading the encyclopedia.I didn’t read it so much as get engrossed in a few choice items. I would look up some topic, usually a Civil War general, ...

Some call them flower children. Others refer to them as drug users or stoners. People of younger generations think of ’69’s Woodstock, of peace and love, of an old, hidden picture of a parent decked ...

The hippie movement started towards the end of the 1960s, continuing on into the 1970s. It was a very vibrant, colorful and liberal era full of self expression through clothing that promoted peace, ...

First, came a moratorium on the so-called head shops that sell pot-smoking paraphernalia. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And ...

If you're into counterculture kitsch, you might want to check out the nostalgia-themed resort hotel at Walt Disney World in Florida. It features a "Hippy Dippy" swimming pool, surrounded by ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

You can’t sum up the hippie movement in one sentence, but if you could it would be this: The only way to envision a just and fruitful world is by taking drugs. The median age of the prototypical, ...