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Grateful Dead Business

March 8th, 2010 admin

No, I am not going to depress you with talk about burying the happy dead. That is, also a  big business, but not something I want to spend my time blogging about, especially at my age. I am talking about the Grateful “Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead”, a feature article in the March 2010 [...]

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The Chicago 7 – A Mirror of Us – Then and Now

March 3rd, 2010 admin

To some, the Chicago 7 were the symbol of the activists wing of the flower children, our generation. No matter what you think of Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner, this eclectic group made a major impact on political landscape of their time, residue remains today. [...]

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Origin of the Peace Symbol

September 12th, 2009 admin

If there is a signal symbol that conjures up memories and even to a great extent stands for our generation it is the ‘peace sign.’  Many would be surprised that the country that gave us the Beatles also birthed the symbol that we put around our necks, drew on high school notebooks, and sprayed on [...]

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Museum to Woodstock

April 21st, 2009 admin

The Travel category of 60s Folks In Their 60s website opens with the repository of the remembrances of the three day rock concert which we all call Woodstock. The official name of the event that took place on August 15, 16, 17 in 1969 was the Woodstock Music and Art Fair Despite the name, it [...]

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