Both Christians and Deadheads were a ragtag group of communal devotees, preaching a simple message of love and peace and ...

Days before playing her first concert in San Francisco with Big Brother & the Holding Company, Joplin apologised to her folks for her "self destructive steak." ...

Housed in a spacious building on the southeast corner of Haight and Ashbury streets’ intersection, the Counterculture Museum ...

In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the journalist broke free of his contrarian clichés to illuminate the origins of 1960s ...

Get your hiking boots on if you're planning on visiting this West Coast city, which was dubbed one of the best urban hiking destinations in the country.

Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and ...

War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.

One of those movements took place in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where an estimated 75,000 young people gathered looking for the values of freedom, peace, and love spread by hippies.

“The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture that flowered in SF’s Haight-Ashbury in 1967.

The “Summer of Love” was a defining moment in San Francisco’s history. In 1967, more than 100,000 people flocked to the city’s Haight-Ashbury district, where droves of hippies embraced ...