Monday, 21. May 2007

Topic: LOST FOUND - on May 21, 2007 at 11:30:00 AM CEST

Summer of Love: 40 Years Later

The rise of '60s counterculture has had a significant impact on our culture today. The Summer of Love resonates in strip mall yoga classes, pop music, visual art, fashion, attitudes toward drugs, the personal computer revolution, and the current mad dash toward the greening of America.

While some of the counterculture's dreams came true, others evaporated like the sweet-smelling pot smoke that saturated the air that summer.

Summer of Love

sfgate.com

STEVE WOZNIAK, the co-inventor of the Apple Computer, still attends rock concerts frequently. THEN: Attending high school in Sunnyvale during the Summer of Love.

PETER BERG AND JUDY GOLDHAFT, directors of Planet Drum, a grassroots ecology outreach program that encourages regional sustainability around the world. THEN: Peter Berg and his wife, Judy Goldhaft, were original members of the Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury community group that served free food daily in the Panhandle, operated the Free Store and so much more.

PAUL KRASSNER, author and social satirist whose most recent book is "One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist," was published in 2005. THEN: Social satirist Krassner was editor of the influential underground magazine, "The Realist."

GRACE SLICK, painter who exhibits her portraits of other '60s rock stars all over the country, now living in Malibu. THEN: With her songs "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" riding the top of the charts, the lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane was the uncrowned queen of the Summer of Love.

ANGELA ALIOTO, former San Francisco Supervisor, now working as a civil rights attorney. THEN: The daughter of then-Mayor Joseph Alioto was attending 11th grade at Convent of the Sacred Heart during the Summer of Love and off to the Fillmore to see Big Brother and the olding Company.

STEWART BRAND, president of Long Now Foundation, which is developing an accurate millennial clock. THEN: Brand rode the bus with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and later edited "The Whole Earth Catalog."

DAVID HILLIARD, visiting professor at the University of New Mexico: THEN: Chief of staff for the Black Panther Party, Hilliard was a young black militant, roaming the streets of Oakland with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale during the Summer of Love.

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