Tag Archives: woodstock

Nameless Hippie Girl

January 25, 2025 – 11:51 am

This photo symbolized the free-wheeling hippie era. I had long mistakenly supposed the young topless woman so enthralled with the music was at Woodstock, but today I discovered thanks to 2011 Daily Mail report that the flower child had a name. Jennifer Wilson. Her photo had been taken at a music festival in 1978 shortly […]

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Joyous Lake 1975

September 3, 2021 – 1:54 am

The Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace; Music on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York has impacted American music culture for over fifty years. Richie Havens opened the festival and Jimi Hendrix closed the concert with a fiery psychedelic finesse. A half million […]

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SPEAKING WITH SEALS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 9, 2014 – 10:04 pm

August turned hot in San Diego. Floe and I slept outdoors under the stars. Two sleeping bags served as our mattress and a single sheet covered our bodies throughout the night. I told her everything. After recounting the fight with the junkie thieves in Haight-Ashbury, she said, “You scare me.” “Why?” I was telling her […]

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