post 13

This is a question I often asked my father and uncle, but they would always just laugh at me and tell me not to worry so much about it. Recently I sat down with my father to interview him for this project, and he told me something that I have wanted to hear my whole life… HE WENT TO WOODSTOCK! Now knowing that I have a firsthand resource to Woodstock, I knew that I could break this trend of not finding anything deep into the drug scene.

but there is one more that i keep close to me.

My father was hippie back when he was our age, and he would always try to explain his way of living to me. One night my dad called my sister and me down stairs so he could show us something. When we got into the basement he said “I know you two have grown up with a lot of people telling you that some for what you believe is wrong, but kids where we are from ALL WE NEED IS LOVE and we will never be wrong.” That night the three of us sat in our basement and listened to the entire Sergeant Peppers CD while he told us stories for his younger years. I never really understood until one night three years later when I actually sat down and had a long talk with my father about that night. After this talk, I was so intrigued to learn as much as a could about the hippie way of life, and from there on out I haven’t changed a thing about our beliefs. So when the mini-ethnography was presented to us I knew right from the start that this was the subculture I wanted to look into.