For the Stage Right Theatre Company, the rock musical “Hair” isn’t just an anachronistic snapshot of the peace and love era of the 1960s. Cast members in their 20s and 30s are finding parallels ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry July 12, 2017 2017-07-08T20:25:25-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6b0/20170708203041003_hd.jpgWilliam Rorabaugh describes the ...

When I was a kid my siblings used to tease me about reading the encyclopedia.I didn’t read it so much as get engrossed in a few choice items. I would look up some topic, usually a Civil War general, ...

The Midland Mall was flowing with a free and relaxed vibe during the grand opening of the BoHo Hippie Hut at 8 a.m. on Black Friday. The bohemian and hippie lifestyle store opened in its first ...

Are there parallels between the anti-war, hippies of the 1960s and today’s social justice warriors? Are there valuable lessons we can learn from the past, both cultural and spiritual, that will give ...

Imagine a time when a store where everything was free could afford rent in the East Village. When mom and pops were more prevalent than chains. When a new counterculture scene was drawing enough ...

Matala, a quiet beach village on the Greek island of Crete, became an international hangout for the flower children of the 1960s. A surprising number of kids from Oregon joined in the happening.

Fifty years ago, an American rock musical brought hippie counterculture values to a mass audience and helped loosen up a whole generation. Hair may have been born out of protests against politicians ...

Promoter Michael Lang’s Woodstock 50 festival didn’t pan out, and maybe that’s just as well. “Civil War re-enactors in everything but name” was one Facebook wag’s joke about its prospective attendees ...

Where have all the hippies gone? “Don’t trust the man.” “My body, my choice.” “Make love not war.” I was not alive during the “enlightened” 1960s, but I have a deep appreciation for the spirit of ...