Most people think of the sixties as a tumultuous, uncertain time in our history. It certainly was a decade of events that changed our lives forever, some good and some bad. We saw the civil rights movement and assassinations of our leaders, the Bay of Pigs, the moon landing, the advent of the birth control pill, the British Invasion and of the course, the Vietnam war. However as a child growing up then, I remember the fun.

"This countercultural revolution, founded and fueled by those who became known as the “hippies”, was of an unprecedented magnitude in its following. Its radical deviation from the “working towards the future” attitude of their parents’ generation to their own “living in the present” was shocking to mainstream America. Their culture spread over the next half a century influencing many facets of life in America." (Lots of pictures!)

My complaints about the modern world, and perhaps a solution…

The Dow took a huge dive and we are now facing another recession worse than the one we are currently in. Are you ready for higher food prices, no home, winter? It is time to get ready now.

A journal entry about my experience at the National Rainbow Gathering in Gifford Pinochet Forest.

A Treatise on the end of the hippie movement in the late 1960.s.

A brief story of the Viet Nam Vets and the way they were treated. Ending with the way they are treated now.

How the protest on the home front during the Vietnam War affected the American view of racial tolerance and equality.

In the 1960’s,a small group of Americans decided that the American culture was corrupt and they set out to create an alternative to the corrupt American culture. It was called the counter-culture. This article briefly describes the most important aspects of the counter-culture.

Forty years later the name still stands for an era, along with "Woodstock", Haight/Ashbury, and all that happened in "The “60″s". Berkeley. For those of us who were there… here are some memories. For those who weren’t… I offer this: