What about the hIppies?
Let’s time travel back to the 1960’s, you are an average person just beginning the most memorable times of your life; your 20’s. It is during this time that you are able to branch out from your parents and discover who you really are as a person. You look back at your graduating class and see that most of them aren’t going to stray far from home; they will probably stay in the same small town and continue to raise their children the same way they have been raised. But this isn’t the life you want for yourself; you want to be free and branch out and discover things about yourself that you never thought possible. This is what many people during this time started to think. They wanted to go against society for what they felt was right; they soon formed the subculture that we know today as the hippie counterculture. Navigate through this website using the menu button to learn about how politics, music, and drugs contributed to the growth of the hippie counterculture.