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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In rural Washington state in 1988, Kevin Tomlinson filmed a group of "hippies" who had been living off the land since the 70s. In this poignant examination of an alternative community seen over time, he tracks down the original interviewees and explores what the glories and sufferings of living off the grid really entailed and of hippie children who today question whether free love was really free.
Author
Publisher
Mill City Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the seldom-chronicled 'back to the earth' movement of the 1970s and '80s, author 'Buckwheat' Bob Harrison tells poignant stories and yarns of his life after quitting his tech job with the State of California, dropping out in 1970 at age 33, and moving to the mountains in southern Oregon. His was a life lived for 15 years without vehicle, electricity, potable running water or legal residence, 10 years as a squatter and 5 years as a caretaker....
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 58
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A circle and three lines: The peace symbol unifies people around the world, crossing language barriers and inspiring hope. This short film follows its history from the 1950s through today, challenging us to remember its past and take responsibility for its future.
Back to the garden: In 1988, filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson filmed and interviewed a group of back-to-the-land "hippies"--Living off-grid, insultated from mainstream culture. In 2006, he tracked...
Author
Series
Jimm Juree mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Forced to relocate to rural Thailand with her eccentric family, crime reporter Jimm Juree fears that her career is over until the bodies of two hippies are discovered in a local farmer's field and a Buddhist abbot is murdered, a case that implicates a monk and a nun.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon, explores the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo; a Gold Rush ghost town, in remote Southwest Oregon. In the 60s and 70s, young hippies flocked to the run-down mining and logging town of Takilma on the edge of the Siskiyou Mountains, which straddle the border between California and Oregon. In that wilderness, the hippies transformed the small town, and with hard work and...
7) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2́007
Language
English
Description
After his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the target of bullies.
9) Hippie
Author
Language
English
Description
The worldwide bestseller by the author of The Alchemist takes us on a journey back in time, from South America to Holland to Nepal, drawing on the rich experiences of his own life to relive the dreams of a generation that longs for peace. • "A novelist who writes in a universal language." —Los Angeles Times
In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee...
In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee...
12) The tribe
Author
Series
A nation of mystics volume Book 2
Publisher
Stone Harbour Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
14) Ruminations
Publisher
NuReality Productions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Who in the Hell is Rumi Missabu?" Find out as we follow the wild life of a counter-culture and drag icon who would eventually become known as Rumi Missabu. A founding member of the radical queer performance group, The Cockettes, Rumi leaves Hollywood a trained child actor and dives headfirst into the LSD fueled hippie culture of San Francisco. The lifestyle and brief brush with celebrity leads to Rumi burning out and disappearing off the grid for...
15) Bad moon rising
Author
Series
Sam McCain mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain, who is caught in a dispute over a hippie commune invading Black River Falls, has doubts that a troubled young man from the commune has murdered the teenage daughter of Paul Mainwaring, one of the town's wealthiest men.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.
This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks,
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1970, Margaret Grundstein abandoned her graduate degree at Yale and followed her husband, an Indonesian prince and community activist, to a commune in the backwoods of Oregon. Together with ten friends and an ever-changing mix of strangers, they began to build their vision of utopia. Naked in the Woods chronicles Grundstein's shift from reluctant hippie to committed utopian--sacrificing phones, electricity, and running water to live on 160 acres...
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