Monthly Archives: February 2017
Burned out on Psychedelics
Old Hippy, I ate way too many mushrooms on Dec. 23rd and had a trip that was way, way, way too intense for me. On that night I let go even though I wasn’t quite ready. It was really scary and way too much. I just layed on a bed moaning and groaning and experiencing […] Continue reading
Why use drugs?
Old Hippy, I like the hippy ways, and even tho I am not a real hippy, I think that you promote a lot of good things. Most hippies are concerned with caring for Mother Earth, keeping the world a peaceful place, preserving forest lands, picking up litter, buying organic foods, and protecting the animals. All […] Continue reading
Can you be a hippie without taking drugs?
Hi there Old Hippy! About this drug thing… I wonder, when reading all the drug stuff at this page, do you think you can’t be a hippie without taking the drugs? I mean, all the time I read stuff about weed, mushrooms, acid and that stuff. I just don’t think that’s so important. I consider […] Continue reading
Break the Dishes by Arlene Brown
Disruptive guerrilla actions became a big part of the work on tour. Disrupting a faculty meeting at Keuka College, disrupting Plimpton speaking to students at Amherst, disrupting classrooms, etc. Each action had basically the same two-fold purpose: To advertise our evening performance and to interrupt the bullshit of the moment, whether it be the President’s […] Continue reading
Yippie Workshop Speech by Abbie Hoffman (1968)
Listen to soundclip! Cops are like Yippies-you can never find the leaders… You just let ’em know that you’re stronger psychically than they are. And you are, because you came here for nothin’ and they’re holdin’ on to their fuckin’ pig jobs ’cause of that little fuckin’ paycheck and workin’ themselves up, you know. Up […] Continue reading
Rock Concert Review by Sandy Darlington (1968)
Saturday at Santa Clara Fairgrounds. Hot weather and a good sound system. About 8000 people came to hear the rock bands. There were a lot of long-haired people there, but the major part of the audience was 15-17 year old white, kids. Lots of short sleeves, some Bermuda shorts. Kids with straight faces held in […] Continue reading
Two, Three, Many Columbias by Tom Hayden
THE goal written on the university walls was Create two, three, many Columbias; it meant expand the strike so that the U.S. must either change or send its troops to occupy American campuses. At this point the goal seems realistic; an explosive mix is present on dozens of campuses where demands for attention to student […] Continue reading
Hippies & Drugs
But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned. Bob Dylan (Rainy Day Women nos. 12 & 35) In the 1960s the hippies, en masse, undertook the largest uncontrolled experiment with drug use in the history of mankind. In those days it wasn’t unusual to be handed a pill, and swallow it […] Continue reading
About The Hippie Archives
Welcome to the Hippie Archives. In this section we store some important original works, documents and images from the period of the 1960s-1970s that have influenced people and society. We are scouring sources for these items to put online as a FREE educational service to preserve and perpetuate the spirit and values of that period. […] Continue reading
Understanding Orgasm (1968)
Tiresias who had been both man and woman, was asked, as Ovid’s legend goes, to mediate in a dispute between Jove and Juno as to which sex got more pleasure from lovemaking. Tiresias unhesitatingly answered that women did. Yet in the intervening 2000 years between Ovid’s time and our own, a mythology has been built […] Continue reading