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 ...

Hippie culture began in the 1960s as a social movement focused on peace, environmentalism, and simple communal living. While it has faded as a mainstream identity, its values of alternative lifestyles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Sue Thatcher at Shutterstock. If the 1960s had an emblem, it would, of course, be the hippies. The hippie movement ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the free love movement blossomed in America in the 1960s, many folks started to look at relationship dynamics in more nuanced ways. It went hand in hand with the counterculture hijinks of the ...

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 ...

In the aisles of a Party City store in 2011, I carefully searched for the perfect Halloween costume, overwhelmed by countless options. Long after my parents were ready to leave, I finally selected a ...

Our nation has a distinct literary tradition, which some dub the American bildungsroman, that delves into the provincial life of a protagonist in his or her youth, then reveals, layer by layer, the ...

Last April, I emailed the editor of the Anderson Valley Advertiser (AVA) and asked if he knew of a place “that makes and serves hippie food.” He replied, “The mother of all ‘hippie food’ emporiums ...