Earth Day & The Hippie Doctrine For the last three decades there has been a concerted effort to paint the 60s Hippie movement as a bunch of misguided, acid-dropping, and dirty hippies. Most of these comments come from people not old enough for the 60s or from well publicized minority view of out of touch […]
EARTH DAY JAM Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson saw the ravages of the 1969 Santa Barbara, California oil spill, the Cuyahoga River caught on fire from pollutants in downtown Cleveland, and LA smog was so bad you couldn’t see the famous Hollywood sign some days, he initiated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, (52 […]
Gary Hempsey The Hippie Doctrine By Ralph De Palma The original American Bandstand was in Philadelphia, and Gary Hempsey’s older sister took him along to listen to the music. Gary was thirteen when Woodstock happened. He loved the music and began playing the guitar and taking lessons in Center City, Philadelphia. At seventeen, he started […]
