Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

Jon and Andy Erwin, the movie-making brothers from Birmingham, have been working their way to this moment. When they were making the movie “Woodlawn,” which told the story of a 1970s revival at a ...

Frustrated with the Vietnam War, The Man, and the general state of the nation, hippies set out to do everything differently. They founded rural communes, dabbled in psychedelics and cultivated a ...

If the 1960s had an emblem, it would, of course, be the hippies. The hippie movement was the era’s defining trend as people ...

When the Counterculture Museum opened Thursday afternoon on the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco, its first two paying customers were waiting at the door in boho-chic paisley and ...

At the Oregon Country Fair, there are fairies and gnomes walking around in colorful costumes. A 40-person marching band also bursts out of nowhere and plays down a path. “Feels like you stepped into a ...

Something strange keeps happening to me on tour for my new book The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Leary, the brilliant, fearless woman who helped shape the psychedelic revolution from behind the ...

These photos explore Miami's cultural history through visual archives. In the late 1960s, hippies congregated in Coconut Grove, smoking pot in parks and attending music festivals. The Miami Pop ...