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 Stories About: dirty hippies AND Seattle
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The Fremont solstice parade and the endangered hippie
Hippies still roam free, on this one day, in this one place. |
David Roberts |
19 Jun 2005 |
Gristmill |
| I spent a lot of time with hippies with I was a young(er!) man, in many parts of the American West, primarily Missoula, Mont. I was even a bit of a hair farmer myself in those days. But these were modern hippies, who mimic the affectations of hippiedom -- pot smoking and earnest sanctimony -- without really feeling it in their bones.Yesterday, though, I went to see what is one of the last vestiges of true dirty hippiedom in this nation of ours: The Fremont Solstice Par ... |
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