Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  The Independent Voices archive has just added a collection of The East Village Other (EVO). The paper was founded in 1967 by a number of people who became well-known authors of the Underground Press: Allan Katzman, Walter Bowart and John Wilcock. At its peak, the paper publishedRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  On January 14, 1967, more than 20,000 hippies and participants in the counterculture gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park to do little more than simply “be” together (Lee and Shalin 62). The event cemented San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury as a center of countercultural activity, setting theRead More