Oregon women’s basketball is off to a hot start. It’s 5-0 (4-0 at home, 1-0 away), scoring at least 80 points in each game and, so far, the... Drum circles on campus lawns, hookahs in residence halls ...

People left mainstream culture in the 1960s and 70s for numerous reasons. For many, it came from restlessness, curiosity, or frustration with the limits of the status quo. Hippie culture encouraged ...

All photos by Steve Schapiro, from ‘Bliss: Transformational Festivals and the Neo-Hippie’ (all images courtesy Powerhouse Books) In 1967, Chicago-based photojournalist Steve Schapiro became famous for ...

There’s something electric about stepping into a world where peace, love, and music reign supreme. In our fast-paced digital age, hippie festivals offer a rare escape, a chance to reconnect with ...

The artist Bruce Liddil said last Thursday he thought his photography career commenced in fifth grade. “I had a teacher named Mr. Wall; he was a photographer from New York City,” began Liddil, who was ...

There are so many amazing hippie movies out there that explore the 1960s counterculture movement. The following three films, though, remain some of the very best. Let’s take a walk through music and ...

We talk about the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s and ask what happened to hippie ideals. Guest host Patt Morrison speaks with John McCleary, author of The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural ...

In 1978 the 23-year-old Rick Steves, then a piano teacher, decided to “wallop my norms” and, along with his pal and future business collaborator Gene Openshaw, set out on a 3,000-mile journey from ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Aside from peace signs and food cooperatives, the 1970s influx of long-haired youth to Vermont brought experimental communes to the hillsides and social activism as well as drug use ...

MOUNTAINDALE — One day in the summer of 1970, Julia Fierman woke up to find hippies in her yard. Some were skinny dipping in the pool at her family's home in Mountaindale. Others set up camp. Fierman ...