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Woodstock
A Festival of Love and Peace
by Laurie Kirby -
I’m
proud of my small town’s worldwide association with peace. Many times
during the 24 years that I’ve lived here, I’ve stood in peace vigils on
the Village Green – and provided a bit of local color for visitors’
snapshots. Tourists and other assorted pilgrims are drawn to Woodstock
by peace as well as by the festival that didn’t happen here (actually
held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake
in the town of Bethel, New York. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43
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Barbara and George Hahn of
Jeffersonville at the original Woodstock site in Bethel. Barbara flew
into the site in August 1969 to care for many of the hundreds of
thousands of concertgoers.
   Now, legendary award-winning journalist and best-selling author Tom Brokaw commemorates the revolutionary events of this pivotal year in a feature-length special, inspired by his book, Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today 
. Drawing upon his
decades of experience, Brokaw revisits the scenes of these iconic
events, pairing provocative voices from the past and present to explore
how these 40-year-old moments still impact our lives today.
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Rainbow
Family gathering results in citations
CUBA, N.M. (AP) - Law enforcement officers have recorded more than 370 incidents and handed out 120 violation notices over the past week as people flock to the Santa Fe National Forest for the Rainbow Family of Living Light's annual gathering. Forest officials said Monday that 1,500 participants are camped in the Parque Venado area east of Cuba. In all, between 10,000 and 12,000 people are expected to attend the gathering from July 1-7. Forest Service spokesman Lawrence Lujan says most of the violation notices handed out since June 14 are related to alcohol, and drug and traffic violations. Some of the people who were issued notices were required to appear Monday in federal court in Albuquerque. Lujan says officers will continue to monitor the event.
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3-year-old
boy was found dead in a creek Sunday afternoon by rescue crews after
the boy had wandered away from his family's Rainbow Gathering campsite
TENNANT -- A 3-year-old boy was found dead in a creek Sunday afternoon by rescue crews after the boy had wandered away from his family's Rainbow Gathering campsite, officials said. About 30 members of the nomadic Rainbow Gathering group had gathered over the weekend off of Highway 97 on Antelope Creek in rural Siskiyou County, said Siskiyou County sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Gravenkamp. Around 11 a.m., Gabriel Jaden Coates, 3, and his 9-year old brother had gone for a walk away from the campsite, Gravenkamp said. The older brother returned to camp to get some candy and told his father, Loren David O’Connor, 32, of McKinleyville that another person at the camp was watching the boy, Gravenkamp said. Gabriel never returned, and O’Connor went to check on him. "The person watching Gabriel said the little boy was just there just a few minutes earlier," Gravenkamp said. The campers searched for Gabriel for about two hours and then one of them drove to a residence in Tennant and called for help, she said. A few hours later, a firefighter found the boy dead, under the water entangled in the limbs of a tree that had fallen across the creek about 50 feet downstream from the camp site, Gravenkamp said. An autopsy will be performed to determine the boy's exact cause of death. |
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Rainbow Family hippies
caught sleeping on library
BOULDER, Colo. — Seven self-proclaimed members of the Rainbow Family — and one Boulder resident who’s not part of the traveling hippies — face municipal fines after police found them sleeping on the roof of the Boulder Public Library. A custodian spotted the inventive campers on top of the 1001 Arapahoe Ave. library — on the north side of the building by Canyon Boulevard — about 6:10 a.m. Wednesday and called police. Officers found eight people passed out in sleeping bags with their belongings scattered around and with two small dogs, said Boulder police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley. “There is no easy access onto the roof, so they would have had to climb up the side of the building and use landscaping,” Huntley said. Initially, police calls to the campers went unanswered, and they asked the Boulder Fire Department to help them get the campers down. Three police officers climbed fire truck ladders to get on the roof, where Huntley said they immediately saw a man and woman sleeping next to each other in sleeping bags. Nearby they found more campers “sound asleep” among their belongings, along with the small dogs, Huntley said. “(The officers) had to announce themselves several times to wake the parties,” she said. “Everyone was escorted off the roof and placed under arrest at 7:05 a.m.” Seven of the suspects told officers they belong to the Rainbow Family — a band of hippies that preaches love, tolerance and peace and holds gatherings every July — and said they’re just passing through Boulder after the annual event in New Mexico. They told police they had taken some illegal psychedelic drugs before climbing on the library roof, Huntley said. Christine Hodge, 22, Joshua Cole, 21, Aaron Waldeck, 19, Kirstin Humason, 21, Eli Dworkin, 19, Thaddeus O’Hail, 18, and Salvatore Gelosos, 22, were arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor trespassing and camping. K. Wheeler, whose full name and age weren’t immediately released by police, also was issued a summons and released. Huntley said the seven Rainbow Family members were booked into the Boulder County Jail because “they have no local ties.” Wheeler wasn’t jailed because he lives in Boulder. “Wheeler just saw the others getting on the roof and followed them at about 10 p.m.,” Huntley said. “Wheeler is not part of the Rainbow group.” Most of the Rainbow Family members were released from jail hours after they were booked on personal-recognizance bonds. Waldeck was still being held on two separate bonds — $250 for the trespassing charge and $100 for the camping charge — on Thursday. He’s due in Boulder County Court on Friday. The campers’ two dogs were taken to the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. This year’s Rainbow gathering was held in Cuba, N.M., during the first week of July. About 10,500 people and their pets gathered for the weeklong party in the Jemez Mountains in the Sante Fe National Forest, according to The Sante Fe New Mexican. Leading up to the gathering, law enforcement officers in Cuba recorded more than 370 incidents involving the Rainbow Family and issued about 120 violation notices, according to the New Mexican. Most of the notices related to alcohol, drugs and traffic violations. Huntley said Boulder police haven’t had much contact with Rainbow Family members this summer. In previous years, especially when the gathering was in Colorado, family members would infiltrate the town in the weeks before and after the event. “So far it has been pretty quiet,” Huntley said. The Rainbow Family started hosting annual gatherings in 1972 when thousands of people convened near Colorado’s Strawberry Lake in Roosevelt National Forest. The gathering since has visited numerous states from coast to coast, and they returned to Colorado again in 1992 and again in 2006. A member of the Rainbow Family, who’s staying in Boulder and knows the people arrested for sleeping on the library Wednesday, said they’ve recently been spending time on the Pearl Street Mall and playing music near the corner of Pearl and 11th streets. “I don’t know what they were thinking to climb on a public building with seven dirty hippies and two dogs,” said the man, who would only give his hippie name, Crystal Biscuit        |
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Ozzy Osbourne has revealed to Classic Rock magazine that he is currently searching for a new guitarist for his solo band. Classic Rock caught up with Osbourne last week at the Slash & Friends gig in Norway, where the whispers backstage had guitarist John 5 (ROB ZOMBIE, ex-MARILYN MANSON) lined up as a possible replacement for Zakk Wylde… "Well, I'm getting a new guitar player as we speak," Ozzy told Classic Rock, "and everyone has been saying to me for a long time, 'Get Johnny 5!' And I tried him at one time and I didn't really give him a chance. We'll see, I don't know. I haven't fallen out with Zakk, but Zakk's got his own band, and I felt like my stuff was beginning to sound like BLACK LABEL SOCIETY. I just felt like I wanted a change, y'know? "I've got a guy from Greece coming in — not the musical, the country of Greece — but I'm not going to say too much about it, 'cos I don't know myself at this point. I've got a new album, I'm working on it as we speak. I've got a studio at my house and I've got a guy called Kevin Churko, the guy that did the last album [Churko also worked on Ozzy's 'Under Cover' album, produced CHEAP TRICK's highly rated 2006 album 'Rockford', and has credits on releases by BRITNEY SPEARS, CELINE DION and SHANIA TWAIN] — he's great to work with. "And it's great to have your own studio. On one hand it's great and on the other it's not, 'cos when you're at the studio you can go, 'Sorry darling, I can't get home for dinner, I'm stuck at the studio…' But she can fucking come down stairs now! But I'm just enjoying my life now…" Classic Rock: So you're taking it easy recording this album? Ozzy: "Oh yeah. Zakk came down and did a bunch of stuff and I don't know if I want to use it but I've got it there if I do. And this Kevin Churko is a bit of an all-rounder so I'm getting back to basics in some respects. One thing about a guy who can't do all the finger-tapping stuff is that he plays better on the riffs 'cos it's not all [hums riff for 'Iron Man' followed by over-the-top widdling]." Classic Rock: Does HEAVEN & HELL having a new album out make you more competitive? Ozzy: "No. Not in the slightest. I really wish them well. I mean I've been out of that band three times longer than I was ever in them. But people say, 'What do you think about Dio?' He's great singer. I've grown up since the days when I used to get pissed and slag him off. For whatever it's worth, good luck to them. I don't want to make enemies — I made enough when I was drinking, I try to make friends with people these days!" Read more of Classic Rock's interview with Ozzy — including Osbourne's thoughts on Michael Jackson's passing —HERE  Classic Rock focuses on the biggest names in rock music--past, present and future --with in-depth features, exclusive interviews, a substantial reviews section, and music news.  Classic Rock Magazine 
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The Oregon
Legislature's latest idea for a tax? Medical marijuana. The state would take over growing and distributing marijuana to patients in the medical-marijuana program under a bill introduced Wednesday. Sponsored by Rep. Ron Maurer, a Republican from Grants Pass, the bill imposes a $98-per-ounce tax, which would cover the state's cost of operating and securing the production center. "I'm not a pot guy, but the water's under the bridge. That's not the issue," Maurer told The Oregonian newspaper. "Let's not even discuss that. Let's discuss is the program working? The answer is unequivocally no, that the program is not working." Democrat Rep. Chris Harker, told the Statesman Journal newspaper that the measure "takes medical marijuana off the streets and into a safer and more secure environment." More... Hippie artifacts
discovered in the remains of ex-HIPPIE commune and former home of the
Grateful Dead
In 1843
Camilo Ynitia built a small adobe home. In 1852, Ynitia sold most of
his land for $5,000 to James Black, the county assessor and land
speculator. Black, in turn, gave the land in 1863 as a wedding present
to his daughter Mary, who married an early San Francisco dentist, Galen
Burdell.The land remained in the Burdell family for 80 years,with a 26-room mansion built in 1911 . Oddly enough, the mansion was built around the core of Ynitia's adobe. The Burdell ranch featured pillars and brickwork, gazebos, exotic plants and trees, a lily pond, and an immense stone fountain, fed by water running down from the 1500-foot Mt. Burdell. In 1943 Court Harrington bought the Burdell ranch for use as a beef cattle ranch, but after five years Harrington sold out to the University of San Francisco in 1948, which initially used the land as a Jesuit retreat. This plan was not successful, and throughout the 1960s USF tried to sell or lease the property, The year 1964 saw the construction of a swimming pool for the short-lived Olompali Swim Club. Then, in 1966, the estate was rented by the Grateful Dead, who in turn entertained Janis Joplin and Grace Slick at Olompali, and featured the land on one of their album covers. Finally, in 1967, Donald Crawford McCoy leased the property. McCoy was the developer of the first modern houseboat marina. McCoy "dropped out" after his 1966 divorce and founded a hippie commune at Olompali, named "the Chosen Family," with dozens of participants at one time or another. The children attended a "Not School" run by a pot-smoking nun. Two of the students, were the sons of Richard (Sgt. Sunshine) Bergess, a San Francisco police sergeant convicted of smoking pot on the Hall of Justice steps. The mansion earned the nickname, "the White House of hippiedom." The commune supplied bread baked in large cans and shaped like mushrooms to residents of Haight-Ashbury. McCoy, with his long, dark beard and flowing locks, was labeled the "hippie benefactor," the "bearded patriarch" and the "rich guru." There were two renowned drug busts in 1969. In one of them, narcotics agents demanded to know who owned all the pot they found. McCoy responded famously, "It belongs to God. I just smoke it." Then things took a turn for the worse. Two children drowned when they fell into the swimming pool. The driver of a big-rig truck was killed in a grisly accident after one of the rancho's 40 horses escaped and ran onto Highway 101. the remainsThe coup de grâce came when the historic two-story mansion burned down on Feb. 2, 1969, the victim, apparently, of an electrical problem. But some good came out of it. The fire exposed an adobe structure. It was the home of Camillo Ynitia. The Chosen Family is long gone, but the remains of their lives sat until 1997 on the floor of the gutted mansion. The debris was placed in sealed barrels after asbestos was discovered. Crews in hazmat suits began cleaning the debris the 2nd week of January 2009 so that archaeologists could sort through it. The artifacts from the Age of Aquarius were laid out on a plastic sheet in an old barn in Marin County's Olompali State Historic Park. Senior State Archaeologist E. Breck Parkman and representatives of the California Department of Parks and Recreation began sorting through the artifacts left 40 years ago by the infamous hippie commune . There, stiff and rumpled from being in storage so long, was a leather jacket with a rainbow colored flower motif, some old boots, dozens of melted records, burned-out speakers, charred beads, monopoly pieces, soot-covered reel-to-reel tapes (the Grateful Dead's ?), pieces of a porcelain toilet. No bongs have been found, but one thing is certainly clear from the Chosen Family artifacts, they liked beer. And lots of beer. Budweiser, Coors, Olympia and Busch beer cans have been found. The idea of going through the stuff, said Victor Bjelajac, the park maintenance supervisor who is assisting Parkman, is not only to find items from the 1960s but also to search for artifacts from the pioneers. He said pearl doorknobs and other decorative artifacts found amid the debris probably date back a century or more. Parkman said most of the sorting should be completed by the 40th anniversary of the Burdell Mansion fire. Once he is done with the hippies, he said, he would like to get permission to excavate the ruins of the adobe, under which lie the remains of Coast Miwok settlements dating back 8,000 years.
sources: The San
Francisco Chronicle and bobandelsa.com
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Date: 26 May 2009 By JANE BRADLEY IN DENMARK IT was a social experiment with an alternative way of life, which has existed in the heart of Denmark's capital for almost 40 years. Now the future of hippie commune Christiania is under threat, as the government's ambition to "normalise" it moves closer to fruition. Previous official attempts to get rid of the commune have always been abandoned, but now the right-wing government believes it should take control of the 85-acre site. Christiania's residents have made legal objections to the plan and are now awaiting the result of the court case to find out if they will be allowed to continue their way of life or be forced out into the rest of society. The government believes an agreement for Christiania's residents to live on the land ended in 2004. Housed in a disused military barracks in Copenhagen's up-market Christianshavn suburb are around 1,000 "Christianites", many of whom have lived in the commune since its inception in 1971. Officials want to build new flats on the site, which is currently a mix of 18th-century naval barracks and various random structures erected by Christianites over the years. Christiania has its own moral code, own rules and even its own currency, the lon. A large wooden sign at the main entrance tells those exiting the community: "You are now entering the EU." Police crackdowns on its main drag, "Pusher Street", have failed to stop open hash dealing – although hard drugs are severely frowned upon by the community and anyone found indulging is expelled. A German-born carpenter by the name of Thomas, who has lived in the community for more than 20 years and whose former partner and 13-year-old son both grew up in Christiania, explained the attractions of living there. He said: "We call it a community for losers. People fit in here who do not fit in mainstream society. If we lose our case with the government and we are made to live in a normal community, it will be very difficult for some people." He added: "We don't bother people, so I don't know why they won't let us keep on doing what we are doing." Christiania boasts its own concert hall – where singers such as Bob Dylan have played in the past – as well as a children's theatre, jazz club and cinema. Residents also run a number of restaurants – including a vegetarian café and a restaurant that achieved four-star status in local newspaper reviews. Although residents pay taxes, they organise their own pre-school education and maintenance of infrastructure. They have a huge recycling facility, where they aim to recycle 90 per cent of all rubbish on the site. Jens, who works at Christiania's opera theatre, added: "People have lived here so long, it is a way of life. I don't know what will happen if things change." A spokesman for the Danish Government Palaces and Properties Agency said: "The ideal future would be that the objective of the Danish Christiania Act is met and the area legitimised. This does not mean, however, that the Christiania area should be standardised with other urban areas. "The Danish government's objective for the development of Christiania is that the area shall continue to be a green, traffic-free area in Copenhagen; that an alternative lifestyle can still be lived but one that complies with the general rules of Danish law without a special act, without the hash trade, with rental payments and open housing allocation, with maintenance of preservation-worthy buildings and with maintenance and protection of the fortification as an open and recreational area for Christianites, Copenhageners and the public in general." Ditle Folmer, who works in a café just outside the Christiania boundary, said the general feeling towards the community in Christianshavn was positive. She said: "I don't think anybody in this area minds. There are those who say 'why should they get to live however they want and we have to obey the rules?', but generally, people are quite happy with them living there and getting on with doing things their way." source : News.Scotsman.com
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In the 60's and 70's, communal living was popular throughout North America, and while it may not have been long-lasting or particularly successful back then, it's a reemerging trend today with businesses like Wanna Start a Commune that focus on networking for communal living standardss.   A
new John Lennon exhibition, due to open in New York later, will feature
a paper bag containing the bloody clothes from the night he was shot
dead.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex display also features the piano from his apartment and handwritten lyrics. His widow Yoko Ono, who has created the display, said the clothes were "hard to include" and she feared she "might be criticised as well" for including them. Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota apartment building on 8 December 1980. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex Created by Yoko Ono, this extraordinary exhibit offers a rare opportunity to experience never-before-seen artifacts, films, & photos that uniquely commemorate Lennon's life in New York City. |
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week, is a little-known but fascinating figure
in rock 'n' roll history. After decades of denial, she's learned to
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