In a sense. . . the hippies did “win,” but not in a way we should truly applaud. Their pro–free love, anti-establishment, anti-war, pro-drug ethos left a trail of destruction in its wake.

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 ...

It’s a scene straight out of the 1960s – long-haired hippies prancing about in the nude, smoking weed, talking about peace and love. Only it’s happening now in the Ocala National Forest ...

“Summer of Love” follows the next 24 hours in her life as she and the hippies strive for mutual ... off much like Judy Collins and other ’60s folkies. Eric Anderson, another local veteran ...

Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Chet Helms, and the Diggers.I also learned, to my dismay, that many veterans of the hippie movement felt the idealism of the era was kaput by the time of the Summer ...

The suddenly kind of awesome Lake Dillon Theatre Company is brazenly rejuvenating the iconic trippy-hippie tribal love musical in rep ... with iconic ’50s and ’60s pop music, including ...

RELATED: What was happening in Palm Beach County in the late ’60s? Murphy ... Why not a love-in? And where did this new tribal rite of the hippie republic take place? Some groovy spot like ...

Fifty years later, the '60s still reign supreme as the decade of free love, free drugs, and freedom from authority. Sadly, the rebelliousness of that bygone era is little more than a memory ...

(Photo by Susan Hillyard) Expand 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 ...