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Here are the comments left on the Guest Book during (the first 10 months of)
1999:
NOTE: see Guestbook entry dated August 12, 2001 for explanation of the
encoding of email addresses.
- From: Tom Diaz (tomas_yada@apex.net), 10/28/99.
- If you are a strong willed women, independent and speak freely, check this
out. http://www.starnet.com.au/dwomen/dw.html#womenindex
- From: KC
(kcv_yada@earthlink.net), 10/28/99.
- I'm 26 yeras old with hope and plans of my own... Thank you for making me
feel less lonely, diapers and all.
- From: Don Monkerud (Monkerud_yada@scruznet.com), 10/26/99.
- The Black Bear Commune Anthology At last, to fill in the details of what
we were doing off in the woods while others were doing their thing in the
cities and the woods. The Black Bear Anthology is coming to print: Free
Land: Free Love: Tales of a Wilderness Commune Edited by Don Monkerud,
Malcolm Terence, Susan Keese. Over 50 authors tell their individual stories,
for example, The object of the game was to get first choice of one's
numerous lgood at the game. I always got my number one pick, but there was
considerable self-delusion involved...--Estrella, Free Luv and the Feminist
Revolution We would sit there in the wintry evenings fingering a copy of
Julia Childs' first French cookbook, lusting over dishes that took
ingredients we knew we would never see and reading in breathy hushed
voices.-- Malcolm Terence, How to Make Chimichangas (Or How I Saved the
Commune) For a few flickering years we succeeded in living a vision of life
where the boundaries of race, class and social standing were as nothing.--
Michael Tierra, The Roy Ballard Episode Write me for details....
- From: Natural Suzanne
(sriffia_yada@cs.com), 10/25/99.
- Digger Goddesses, we are due for our second millenial gathering and I have
found the ideal place. It is a house on Kauai just feet from the ocean where
Hula Laus come to practice on the beach. Kauai is the oldest inhabited
island. Pele loves Kauai. Kauai is her first born and her favorite. Pele
wears white only when she visits Kauai. On the other islands Pele wears red.
Kauai is a strong female force in the geography of Mother Earth. What do you
think? Would you like to go? Do you know more about Kauai? Please contact me
if you are interested and if you want to help organize this event. Kauai is
still wild and dangerous with wonderous trails and hidden beaches. I have a
second message: I am so happy that I had the great fortune to be with the
Diggers and to know the truly spectacular, courageous, and creative people
that formed the core and the ever-widening orbits of Digger Charm. Thanks
everyone. Thanks Eric, for keeping open a channel of communication.
- From: christ ryan (teenjesus_yada@hotmail.com), 10/25/99.
- I'm writing a research paper on the diggers for my history honors class
it's making my teacher crazy that everything I could ever need is on your
web-site. Thank you!!!!
- From: Eric (enoble_yada@crl.com), 10/19/99.
- Marie -- yes, Digger bread was baked in the cans (1 lb. or 2 lb.) The
trick was to oil the inside of the cans well, so that after the baking, the
bread could easily be pulled out of the can. I have no doubt that modern day
coffee cans would still work the same. If you want to read more about digger
bread, I have a page here: on
digger bread --en
- From: Marie*** (gethssemane_yada@hotmail.com), 10/19/99.
- I know this must be the dumbest question--Digger bread is baked IN the
can, right? I mean thats why its shaped like that, right? I feel like an
idiot asking but I don't want to blow up the kitchen by putting a coffee can
in the oven. Oh, and are the coffee cans today still good for baking??? I
would like to know so I can get started... Thanks :) Marie***
- From: Devora
(honeybel_yada@lisco.com), 10/18/99.
- Amazing! so sweet to find this here... I was given my name in the
storefront on Haight in the Autumn after the Summer of Love.I had moved from
the Haight to a commune in Inverness and had come in to the City and crashed
at the Diggers for the night. There was a very young kid on his first acid
trip there, having a rather bumpy time of it, so I took his head on my lap
and talked to him for a long time. When I looked up, everybody was
listening, and I ended up talking all night. In the morning a guy came up
along with the oatmeal, stood on his head for a while, and then asked me my
name. People had been calling me Trip for several years, and when I told him
that he said it was the wrong name for me, thought a while and then said I
should take the name Devora. It changed my lif in many ways, and I still
wonder who he was. If this story sounds familiar-would you email me? All
Love and Joy!!
- From: xjasonbeattyx (xjasonbx_yada@aol.com), 10/18/99.
- hey! I've been reading a lot of history on the radical groups of the 60's
(Black Mask/Motherfuckers, Heatwave/King Mob, The Sits, etc. You know, the
really big ones. But where do I start with a really good, comprehensive
overview of the Diggers? Besides Peter Coyote's new book? Could you let me
know? Thanks! xjasonbeattyx
p.s. i also heard that the diggers were against drug use and used to
lambast timothy leary for his "Tune in..." crap. Is this true?
I've always felt drugs/alchohol/TV(internet?) was lame and used to maintain
the status quo. bye! - From: peterpower (petbro_yada@earthlink), 10/16/99.
- would that we were all soo..beautiful again...and a new jerusalem would
pass before our astonished eyes and our bright and shiney dreams set to spin
on an ancient mtn. hippy hill scene of so many resurrections...and to think
it all started w/ beer
- From: Rena Morningstar (swim_yada@mauigateway.com), 10/11/99.
- Aloha! Yesterday was the 3rd anniversary of Lou Gottlieb's transcendence
into the next world. Of course his spirit lives on. The Santa Rosa Press
Democrat issued a magazine titled, "The 50 People Who Shaped Our
Century." There's a very good (and humerous) bio of Lou sandwiched in
between Luther Burbank and Jack London. Check it out at: http://www.pressdemo.com/extras/top50/gottlieb.html#top
Love to All, Rena
- From: Chuck Gould (), 10/11/99.
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- From: davina smith (davinas_yada@yahoo-inc.com), 10/06/99.
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- From: eleyigth smith (eirene743_yada@yahoo), 10/06/99.
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- From: Kathy Nolan (kmarie_nolan_yada@yahoo.com), 10/05/99.
- wow -- it's like old home week -- glad I finally visited! Hi to all Black
Bears in the Montery/Santa Cruz area -- love ya!
- From: Eldar Apuk (eldar_yada@ptt.yu), 10/05/99.
- I am from Kosovo my family home is fired in wor in aprill , 1999year I am
inginery of machinery I was private factori in my town Kosovska Mitrovica .
I have three suns age 6years 3 years and 4 manths I have wife , old mather
and handicep sister. Can you help me and my family make smoll family home.If
you can't if your rich friens.thenk you very much.
- From: (), 10/05/99.
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- From: Arthur Lisch (winstanley1648_yada@yahoo.com), 10/02/99.
- Thanks for your comments and interest, Eric. I was at the Jefferson Stone
(on the D.C. Mall)on September 25th. and 26th. representing the True
Leveller spirit as best I could. This was done in relation to the Native
spiritual elders' prayer vigil near the site. The action received the
blessing of various Native elders and from other religious representatives
gathering for prayer. The picture now is to have a gathering at the site on
April 22, 2000 (Earth Day) for the declaration of a sacred circle at the
original symbolic center. The Jefferson Stone action resonates with the
efforts to place a (digger) marker stone on St. George's Hill in England.
Any True Levellers still out there willing to take part? R.S.V.P.
- From: Patrick Lowenstein
(fender1_yada@inreach.com), 10/01/99.
- I just discovered this web site, I am so happy to see brothers and sisters
from our time out there. I have seen so much as I am sure you all have but,I
still have my VW bus.Has anybody seen Dave Lucas,Bill Franklin,Joe
Cardoza,Bill Crete?
- From: Eric (enoble_yada@crl.com), 09/27/99.
- Been camping out in Ancient Pueblo ruins these past two weeks. Just
checking in remotely from Arizona. Hope all is well with everyone. I see
that Arthur is continuing on in the spirit of Gerrard Winstanley. I visited
the Jefferson Stone on Arthur's recommendation the last time I was in D.C.
Sorry we cannot be there this time. Salud!
- From: Allison Star (), 09/27/99.
- Keep ridin till da wheels fall off!
- From: Ruediger Drischel (r.drischel_yada@bauen.de), 09/25/99.
- Ich habe gerade den wunderbaren Film "Les Diggers de San
Francisco" gesehen. Das beste: "Freiheit und Verantwortung sind
die beiden Seiten derselben Medaille". Grüكe an alle Diggers,
weltweit.
- From: Arthur Lisch (winstanley1648_yada@yahoo.com), 09/24/99.
- R.S.V.P. re. D.C. A./M. - P.M. 9/25 A.S.A.P.
- From: Claude Hayward
(cwhayward_yada@uswest.net), 09/23/99.
- Anybody out there who knows what happened to "Lovable Ol' Doc
Stanley" (Michael Augustus Stanley) I'd like to hear from or of him.
- From: Peter Coyote
(wdprod_yada@earthlink.net), 09/23/99.
- I'm looking for anyone who can help me locate Eleygth and Gentry, and a
girl named Davina Sweetwater Smith. Her father is a man named David "Davi"
Harpine, an old buddy of mine from Olema, serving virtual life in Atlanta,
Georgia, looking to get reunited with his daughter. Any help would be
appreciated Thank you,Peter Coyote
- From: Arthur Lisch
(winstanley1648_yada@yahoo.com), 09/23/99.
- I'll be at the Jefferson Stone at the original symbolic center of the
United States on the Mall in Washington, D.C. as a next step in cultivating
a circle of Earth dedicated to true levellers here , there and everywhere. I
will be working from sunrise to sunset on September 25th. If you are in the
bioregional neighborhood join with me. Arthur Lisch
- From: Claude Hayward
(cwhayward_yada@uswest.net), 09/23/99.
- Back on-line after months and months. Still out in New Mexico and ready to
hear from you.
- From: Jesus Omalley (mgutc_yada@email.msn.com), 09/22/99.
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- From: Jesus Omalley (mgutc_yada@email.msn.com), 09/22/99.
- Viva la anarquia!
- From: Rick (Alias Sgt. Pepper) (tlookg_yada@aol.com), 09/16/99.
- I love it! I accidently came across the Sixties web site last week. I
didn't get a chance to really view it till this week. I was shocked when I
found my photo under the Summer of Love gallery. The first photographer,
Wolman, has photographs of Grace Slick, The Grateful Dead, and a 19-year-old
guy selling papers on Haight Street. That guy is me!!! So cool! I feel
honored! Stunned! I thought I was on a cool acid trip. :) I'm so glad to see
people keeping the Sixties alive, especially the Haight-Ashbury which I've
never forgotten to this day. I'm very proud to be part of peace & love.
Rick (Alias Sgt. Pepper)
- From: S Ramachandran (indiarama_yada@hotmail.com), 09/09/99.
- Goodstuff. I am a street theatre activist in India with the most active
street theatre group here. Into freedom from all social evils....
We are planning a street theatre festival in 2000 and also will be coming
out with a book on street theatre. Need info on street theatre of the
Diggers and any other group that may occur to you.
Do get in touch
prayer thanks and regards, rama - From: Dean Blobaum (db_yada@press.uchicago.edu), 09/08/99.
- On your page http://www.diggers.org/sixties.html you might include a link
to my site about the street demonstrations at the 1968 Chicago Democratic
National Convention which is at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/
- From: (), 09/06/99.
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- From: Reginald Eugene Williams (reggie_yada@thestraight.com), 09/06/99.
- Checking in from the Straight Theater, Haight&Cole Sts SF Ca '66-'69
letting you know our web page will be up and running presently Celebrating
the 60's.. More Later. L&P REW
- From: Regina (), 09/06/99.
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- From: Peter Coyote (www.petercoyote.com), 09/05/99.
- Eric, you should know that the Black Bear anthology is about done and
ready to be committed to print. Roughly inspired by my book, it has entries
by any number of folk who homesteaded that commune (still going with a
younger generation.) I've read some of the excertpts (and contributed one)
and it looks to be a must for the Digger web-site. Thanks for continued
great work.
- From: Peter Coyote (www.petercoyote.com), 09/05/99.
- Eric, you should know that the Black Bear anthology is about done and
ready to be committed to print. Roughly inspired by my book, it has entries
by any number of folk who homesteaded that commune (still going with a
younger generation.) I've read some of the excertpts (and contributed one)
and it looks to be a must for the Digger web-site. Thanks for continued
great work.
- From: Alan Corkish (alan_yada@corkish.freeserve.co.uk), 09/04/99.
- I'm living in Liverpool England and desperate to find a copy of Ringelevio
which I haven't read for fifteen years. It's out of print over here and I've
been trawling book shops to no avail. Can anyone help ?
- From: 7mad
(uae_888_yada@hotmail.com), 09/01/99.
- How are you every Bady ... boy or leadie i want to make frined with any
bady ...... pleas write to me and any bady want to me frined can send me a
litter,,,,,,,, thankxxxx for all
- From: Roy Hanney (royhan_yada@globalnet.co.uk), 08/30/99.
- I hope you don't mind but I have linked to your site "The English
Diggers" as it is has a great deal of information relating to my film,
the Diggers and the English Civil War. Perhaps you would consider linking to
my site? http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~royhan/film/
- From: Marcus Colasurdo (gimmeU_yada@earthlink.net), 08/30/99.
- Calling Kellie Colasurdo !!E-mail me at the above address and we'll talk
names..greetins & blessings to all !
- From: (), 08/30/99.
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- From: marcus colasurdo (gimmeU_yada@earthlink.net), 08/30/99.
- Blessings and greetings to all out there giving light, imagination and
food...Hello, Kellie Colasurdo !! Great to see a namesake here in
digger-land ! E-mail me and let's talk about our name !! Marcus colasurdo
- From: Chief Shoveler
(cowpie_yada@erols.com), 08/29/99.
- I'm doing a little thing to help save planet by wearing hemp fibered jeans
but I've been told that the methane in farts releases the dormant thc in
industrial hemp. Can anyone tell me if I'm really getting high on my farts
or this is just my imagination?
- From: Eric (enoble_yada@crl.com), 08/21/99.
- Jet stopped over this morning with news that Martin Wong passed on to the
next plane of his artistic journey last week (after a lengthy fight with
AIDS). There was a long obit in the New York Times (8/18/99) that mentioned
Martin's "stint with a gay performance street troupe in San
Francisco" and later in the article (which is quite long and detailed)
explains further that "the Angels of Light [were] a mystically oriented
gay street performance troupe in San Francisco." No mention of free
theater, but I suppose that's expecting too much. So long, Martin. Happy
trails wherever you are.
- From: Ramon (rabar_yada@well.com), 08/21/99.
- Just got news that Steve Stine, aka Friar Tuck, true believer and
participant in the S F Diggers' 1967 scene, early Morningstar Ranch
resident, got a sudden reassignment off-planet. According to his devoted
wife Suzie, "He was laughing one moment and dying in my arms the next.
And he was only 49 years old." Memorial service in Boonsboro, MD. Put a
memory in his guestbook at: http://www.harpwro.com/guestbooks/May08:35:513-52.html
or drop a note to Suzie Stine at his e-mail address: friartuc_yada@intrepid.net
OMMM BADABA TAT SAT!!!
- From: mike (BNairis_yada@aol.com), 08/20/99.
- You bring back old memories MIKE class of 71.
- From: Tony (The Crow) Crowther
(the-crow_yada@millomcastle.freeserve.co.uk),
08/17/99.
- The meek will inherit the earth. Hi there, great site. Could I also ask
you the source of the diggers song,(Band+Album name)I would love to own a
copy of the album, Cassette or CD. Thanks.
- From: jah (jah_yada@iww.org), 08/12/99.
- Hey folks... if you like the Diggers, you should join the Organise
anarchist mailing-list! Just click on the list-name for info on how to
subscribe!
- From: Sylas Kick (http://freedomlink.freeservers.com), 08/05/99.
- Greetings from the top of the world....We shall be FREE!!!
- From: Kellie Colasurdo
(kelliec7_yada@excite.com), 08/04/99.
- I did a search for my last name, just to see what I would come up with
& decided to sign this book. HI COLASURDO!
- From: Linda Fletcher
(mvines1110_yada@aol.com or Jazzuptown_yada@hotmail.com),
07/28/99.
- I was very happy to find this archive. I participated and was a member of
the Diggers. I stayed at the second commune that was on Haight Street. I got
involved through a boy friend who later became my husband. I used to go to
Haight Ashbury when I was in High School before the Diggers were a visual
element. I was pregnant while I lived in the commune on Haight and the
commune was my daughter's first home. I think the address is 1578 Haight
Street. I worked very closely with the organizers and remember when the
third commune was set up. I can't remember the street at the moment. We were
also the organizers for the free store, free medical clinic also. In fact we
were riding around in free cars. I went with the organizers to get food and
pick up donated items. Our phone rang off the hook. There was a lot of work
to do. I was part of the group of organizers that were very busy before the
Summer of Love and was there when it happened. Also, a part of the concerts
that took place in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park. I remember a lot. I
also remember the first "Be-In" that took place before the Diggers
in Central Park and remember seeing Jimmy Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane.
Sincerely, Linda
- From: bill donovan (Bdon4_yada@AOL.COM), 07/17/99.
- Lots of respect for what you`re doing.
- From: Skip L. (alangton_yada@lanealt.com), 07/15/99.
- We miss ya' here in Boston Jer'. The wheel keeps turnin but don't know
where to get off...
- From: Skip L. (), 07/15/99.
- We miss ya' here in Boston Jer'. The wheel keeps turnin but don't know
where to get off...
- From: Skip Langton (alangton_yada@lanealt.com), 07/15/99.
- We miss ya' Jer... Give us just a little light!!!!!
- From: Mark Janowicz
(shihwastone_yada@value.net), 07/14/99.
- Dear friends, hello and how are you. This is Mobile Mac, ragged old roue
and all-around hobo. And now, I really must be going.
- From: Mark Janowicz
(shihwastone_yada@value.net), 07/14/99.
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- From: Mark Janowicz (), 07/14/99.
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- From: Linda (rapunzel_yada@earthlink.net), 07/14/99.
- Color me stunned.... Two days of searching and I finally find things
Digger and Black Bear Ranch. I stayed at Black Bear briefly in the fall of
'83....7 months pregnant and a 20 month old on my hip. Looking for word on
Gaba, Peter(not Coyote), Fran, "Kenoli" and others ......Any info
on the Ranch would be appreciated. Linda....Swimming in the memories and
heading out to find Peter's book...
- From: jessica medd (RUKind16_yada@aol.com), 07/13/99.
- hey now! hows everyone doin? well if anyone is interested in buying some
homemade hemp jewelry please check out my site http://www.geocities.com/eureka/business/6785/
or you can just stop by and sign my guestbook thanks alot! peace&love to
all!
- From: khader (khader68_yada@hotmail.com), 07/11/99.
- الاسم : خضر سمير تاريخ الميلاد : 8/6/1974 مكان
الميلاد : غزة - فلسطين الحالة الإجتماعية :
أعزب المهنة : محاس
- From: Adam Bauer (ahunterb_yada@crocker.com), 07/11/99.
- Checking in from North Leverett Mass. Have enjoyed the company over years
of Diggers David & Jane Simpson and other self-exiles to the Lost Coast
of California. Give thanks for the inspiration of smart and simple folks all
over who are still trying to live in harmony and spread the good word. We're
trying to do the same here at Tree Toad Farm in the hills outside of Amherst
Mass, and of course we welcome visitors and compatriots. Dig on, mateys!
- From: m.s.u jofish (da
countess_yada@hotmail.com), 07/10/99.
- new zealand digger 18yrs, contact forfree publications, including
in-production "free papers from the haight", anthology collection
thing.
- From: rynno (rynno_yada@oru.tartu.ee), 07/07/99.
- happy to find these pages at last. for years i have been telling people
about the Emmet Grogan Ringolevio book and about Richard Brautigan. besides
i am working as archaeologist. best wishes to you all. rynno
- From: Bradford Thelin
(landb_yada@mediaone.net), 07/06/99.
- My name is Bradford Thelin and I live in the USA. I have been surfing the
Internet on the Thelin family name as I start to put together my family
tree. I was wondering if Ron ever spoke of other family and how I may
contact them. If you have any input I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks,
Bradford Thelin
- From: Marcin Briegmann (gum_yada@friko.internet.pl), 07/03/99.
- Hello, I'm Marcin and I'm from Poland. I saw a film about you today and I
decided to visit you. I'm very interested in your ideas for free life. Good
luck from Poland!
- From: Rena Morningstar (swim_yada@mauigateway.com), 07/02/99.
- Aloha. Note a new e address for me. We are busy planting edible
landscaping and preparing for consequences of y2k. 60 Minutes did a Y2K
segment. You can access it at: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000rqn
Have also been hiking in Haleakela crater with a pack of teens and preteens.
When I was a cub scout mother (really) in '78 i taught the cubbies hatha
yoga and had them chanting "Om." i have also been teaching infant
and toddler swim classes. I hope we can transform y2k into something
magical. However, if it becomes a national emergency, anything can happen.
get your water filters and know a source of H2O. Love, Rena
- From: Danny Clarke
(dannyclarke_yada@mailexcite.com), 06/29/99.
- Well, it is summer 1999, but who's counting. I'm thankful to have
discovered the existence of the Diggers. I stumbled upon an old Fugs
cassette which I had taped off an old roommate. I then decided to surf the
net and found an interview with Ed Sanders of the Fugs, who talks with great
praise about the Diggers. Jello Biafra also links the early Beats, early
hippies, early punks and Diggers as the core of each generational
underground movement. I'm happy to have found this information and these
ideas as I have been trying to build a life for myself outside of the main.
Good luck to y'all and here's hoping for a revolution of the mind and soul
in 2000.
- From: Frances Fox (ffox_yada@thegrid.net), 06/29/99.
- Can someone please put me in touch with the author of the legend appearing
on a banner posted to the Life Building in London over the J18
demonstration? The message was EARTH A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL. It reflects
the sentiment of the Global Resource Bank, http://www.grb.net and the GRB
may wish to use it. Everybody owns one share of the GRB as a birthright.
Please reply to ffox_yada@thegrid.net. Thank you. Frances Fox, Monterey, CA
- From: CHUCKWAGON BLACKRABBIT ET AL (petbro
_yada@cwixnet.com), 06/26/99.
- often visit this space and standing; recall all and am still here remem a
rena w/ curly morning sun in hair . remem assembly of gawd an those baptists
sayin take that sign off yer bus boy...le living unborn dead. straight...
miracles every one blind bob...the feather in the hands of a blind master
teachin us about aromas in millbrook an all the league wanted a peace o
grogan an electric fascists too numberous to mention keep on chooglin...
- From: Susan
(daved_yada@gtelco.net), 06/21/99.
- I was a 70's counter-culture kid. My parents were back-to-the-landers that
moved us to the woods of Oregon when I was 10. We co-opped with a local
Christian Commune of "hippie".... good ex-college kids mostly.
Some 6 years later my parents... who had dropped out, dropped back in. But
my Oregon years left huge impressions on me and formed a lot of my
spiritual, ethical, and free-thinking foundations that still effect my life
today. My husband's and I were both "counter-culture" kids and we
are now counter-culture (of another kind) adults. Its interesting, someone
asked me the other day, "How can you think and be the way you are? Why
can't you just be 'normal' like everyone else?" I had to laugh.... what
is normal to you? This, my life, is normal to me. I was RAISED that
way.......
- From: Gail Marcinak (gbdurfee_yada@hotmail.com), 06/20/99.
- I was there - had a flyer on something like 'remember what it was like in
the beginning' you know before the tourists, etc. Met such a wonderful
variety of people...a professor at the Drugstore Cafe and our favorite
Hell's Angel Joe Morningstar - that was myself and Donald Thomas Scroggs
(whose aunt says he was killed?) and Doug and Frank and Coyote (the same one
on the documentary I caught parts of? I have pictures - is it Peter Coyote?)
and a guy from GR, MI? There was this wonderful Sunday in the Panhandle Park
with bands playing and people dancing on top of vans, etc. Sundays will
never be the same. I thought it would be cool to find a site like this and
here it is. If anyone knows of these folks or where there might be a copy of
that flyer 'In the beginning...' please let me know. Groovey!
- From: Tomas
(tomas_yada@apex.net), 06/20/99.
- Good Morning, Ramon Sender has opened a web site with more wonderful
stories about Morningstar Ranch and Wheelers. The site is under constuction.
But you are welcome to visit the site if you like. The site will grow as
more people write about their lives at these communes. Peace, badaba http://www.ic.org/morningstar/
- From: David Barlow
(margi_yada@camtech.net.au), 06/20/99.
- Does anyone recall the 'Bill Miller for Berkeley mayor' bid - when it was,
who he was, the basic story? I am researching a 'campaign poster' of this
event - with platform of 'Legalize Grass', 'Police Review Board', 'Free Food
Centres', 'Free LSD'. Anyone who can recall this, or who can point me to
likely texts, please contact. With many thanks.
- From: Rena Morningstar
(swim_yada@ccmaui.com), 06/19/99.
- Aloha from Maui. I'm enjoying the guestbook. I noticed several requests by
aspiring hippies and other evolutionaries for the titles of books pertaining
to the 60's. "Communes USA," by Dick Fairfield published in the
early 70's is a great look at communal living experiments in the 60's. Love
to all. I've been swimming with spinner and bottlenose dolphins in the open
ocean. Very high! The spinners leap and spin as many as 8 times before
re-entry into the ocean. Rena
- From: jamie (cosmick_yada@hotmail.com), 06/18/99.
- Beautiful pictures, man. I am so glad that the yippies, the hippies, the
diggers, and all the crazy bohemians have managed to survive admist all of
the anal, superficial, and two-dimensional mud pies out there. To exist is
by the real- TO LIVE IS BY THE IDEAL feel free to write me, i would love to
talk to some fellow bohemians
- From: michael bowen (bowen_yada@beatscene.com), 06/17/99.
- although peter berg,peter coyote and emmet grogan and i were often at
serious odds, ( emmet was actually in my gunsights once, thank the gods that
never happened)i love them now and i did then for their energy and fighting
spirit. their contribution to the future, in which some of us find ourselves
now, should be a lesson and an inspiration in the struggle for humanitys
right to be. be-in and be strong. like a digger. michael bowen florence
italy
- From: Gary Moraco (hempdude_yada@prodigy.net), 06/15/99.
- HEY NOW! Get me a subsciption to The Oracle 25TH Anniversary Edition and
I'll be your friend!
- From: bruce (ponchovillah_yada@hotmail.com), 06/13/99.
- anybody remember mark,sophie,amy and justin,cool folks that lived in the
basement apt. of the haight bootery red house 69 to 71? took me in as a kid
and had a very positive influence on my life.
- From: Gary Schroeder
(cyberman_yada@slip.net), 06/13/99.
- I'm trying to locate an old friend named Cathy Johnston who was part of
the scene in Denver, Aptos and the Haight Ashbury in the sixties and
seventies. She disappeared (lost contact with friends and family) about 25
years ago. If you have any information about her, please let me know. Please
check out my web site for scans of Rock n Roll handbills and posters and
photos of San Francisco hippies. Peace, Gary http://www.slip.net/~cyberman
- From: Davey MF (bubaire_yada@directlink.net), 06/10/99.
- Does anyone know how I can get in touch with Siena? (mother of Taj and
Mahal) Sent mail to griffia_yada@csba.org, but it came back....
- From: sean
(deadrabit3_yada@aol.com), 06/10/99.
- I am a deadhead who is writing (or trying to write ) a research paper
examining poetry of the 1960's specifically i am looking for antiwar poetry,
poetry from the soldiers at war, poetry from the womens liberation, poetry
form the african american's fight for equality, and poetry from the parents
of any of the above mentioned i was wondering if you could help me or if you
can't and know somebody who can please pass this on. my email is deadrabit3_yada@aol.com
thank you kyndly.
- From: Davey MF (bubaire_yada@directlink.net), 06/09/99.
- Hello to all that remember me (and to those that don't, for that matter!
;-)
- From: George Longacre (Longacre_yada@Softcom.net), 06/06/99.
- My street name was Taurus, I lived in Haight in 66 and 67. Later I was in
a couple of communes in Oregon. I am/was 6 feet 4 inches tall with reddish
brown hair, normally I stick out in a crowd. if anyone remembers me and
wants to contact, me feel free to.
- From: joeschifferli (joeas1_yada@webtv.net), 05/30/99.
- Hi there. hope the world is treating you well. Anyone out there from
school days? I'm writing a fanasy novel I plan to have finished by late
fall. wish me luck.
- From: joeschifferli (joeas1_yada@webtv.net), 05/30/99.
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- From: Alan W. Moore (awm13579_yada@yahoo.com), 05/26/99.
- This is pretty amazing site. Glad to see it happening... I'm writing a
doctoral dissertation on NYC artists' organizations -- Art Workers
Coalition, Artists Meeting for Cultural Change, Colab, ABC No Rio and
Fashion Moda, and Group Material. This is basically about artists'
collectives. There is a tremendous earlier history of artists' collectives,
many involved with art and technology, like USCO, Pulsa, Drop City and
others, which is -- so far as I know -- unwritten, and unremembered in
common. Like the Diggers, none of this is part of the ``history of the
left'' as it is construed by historians writing in the Marxist tradition.
I'd be happy to hear from anyone who is working in this area. Oh yeah; why'd
I come here? The connection to New York, of course, is Abbie. And the issue
isn't his ``stealing'' from the West Coast, it's his battle with East Coast
New Lefties to organize hippies and to do revolutionary work in the sphere
of culture... All the best--
- From: chuckwagon aka blackrabbit (petbro_yada@cwixnet.com), 05/25/99.
- Its always sad to hear that another love has left forever. Suzanne was the
pentultimate street person, part godess, part hobo, intensely insanely
artistic,open to a fault, truly unattached,the two meter blond sans shoes in
front of you in the soup kitchen, the totally hip sophisticate, crashin the
party w/ a couple uh spade winos tiny hands and feet enormous heart, tom
burns from his death bed called her the spider woman, and opium jones will
not sleep alone forever
- From: KLO (superbjork_yada@mindless.com), 05/24/99.
- DAYTON, OHIO: seeking homesteaders in Dayton. We're looking to start a
collective in the downtown/inner-north area. Also: homesteaders from other
areas, do you have any advice or experiences to share?
- From: Michael McCracken Jr.
(stonyj_yada@aol.com), 05/23/99.
- CHUCKWAGON: Pete...if you still check this site, I spoke to Bill Wheeler (Ranch)this
P.M. he says that Suzanne Heglund/Lutken AKA Swedish Suzanne was most likely
deceased. Thanks for the lead, though. Hope you check my progress at
www.woodstocknation.org/mccracken.htm All the best, and keep the beat.
- From: Alexander Millen
(lexxxx_yada@net.ntl.com), 05/23/99.
- I've been into Digger shit for many years and after finding &
rereading Ringolevio I had to log on. The "up you" photo of Emmett
now graces my desktop as wallpaper and I'm attempting to use it as the new
logo for my college's student association. "IT'S FREE BECAUSE IT'S
YOURS". Keep the faith brothers and sisters!!
- From: Sandra Bolker
(sabolker_yada@prodigy.net), 05/22/99.
- What a wonderful site !!!!
- From: doug jordan (douglasj50), 05/20/99.
- keep up the struggle
- From: Jimmy (ratpie_yada@hotmail.com), 05/19/99.
- HELLO ALL I would like some information on the Summer of Love if anyone of
you want to answer my questions: What was it? Where was it? What did you do
all day? How was the Vietnam War involved? How exactly were drugs involved?
Thanks all of you ....... HElP ME MAKE A GOOD REPORT!!! OR IF YOU WANT TO
INCLUDE SOME LINKS YOU CAN DO SO>>>>>WITH INFO thanks!
- From: Redwood
(redwood_yada@codecheck.com), 05/18/99.
- I sure wish I could attend this film and potluck. Unfortunately, I'll be
out of town on June 13th. Please keep us posted if this film will be showing
again in the Bay Area.
- From: (), 05/18/99.
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- From: Eric (enoble_yada@crl.com), 05/18/99.
- To David Allen, about the film "Les Diggers de San Francisco".
There's going to be a showing next month in San Francisco. It will be Sunday
June 13 at 6:30pm. Potluck and film afterwards. Location: Cell, 2050 Bryant
St.
- From: Eric (enoble_yada@crl.com), 05/18/99.
- To Jim, about guerilla theater resources. I'd suggest the book Ten Years
After, the history of the SF Mime Troupe (they were the ones who coined the
term Guerilla Theater.) Ron Davis, the founder of the Troupe, wrote the book
and there are a couple scripts in the Appendix (if memory serves.) I think
Ron is actually online occasionally and may check in and see your message.
In terms of scripting, I'd suggest just getting together with your friends
and having brainstorming sessions. That's how we used to do it. Do a
"interview on the street" scene where a reporter is asking
"normal" Americans what they think about the war, and then switch
to interviewing Serbs and Albanians. Perhaps have an announcer in the
background reading off the budget figures that Clinton requested to continue
the bombing, etc. etc. The whole point of guerilla theater is to break down
illusions that people have and present a different frame of reference. Hope
this helps... from Eric, ex-Plutonium Player and Assorted Nuts cast member.
- From: Jim Edwards
(ketzer_yada@teleport.com), 05/18/99.
- My name's Jim Edwards, and as a member of the West Linn High School
thespian troop I'm looking for ways to put our little acting community's
talents to uses other than blatant elitism. I was thinking of putting
together a (or possible a series of) street theater performance protesting
the Kosovo bombings/Iraq bombings. I was wondering if you could suggest any
guerilla theater resources, online or otherwise, scripts that could be
updated, methods that have worked, etc. Thanks for the assistance, and
regards, Jim
- From: David Allen (dallen_yada@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu), 05/18/99.
- Can you help me view a copy of "Les Diggers de San Francisco",
the film? I am currently putting together a book on films that frame the
1960's. Thanks and cheers.
- From: JB Feirman (jbf11235_yada@hotmail.com), 05/18/99.
- Hi, I know you. You won't remember me, but my band used to play at the
Digger's Free Store along the Bowery, near Greenwich Village in the late
'60s, now surfing the internet in the '90s; what a long, strange trip it's
been. Just thought I'd say hey as I glide through. JB Feirman, a/k/a
Diggitman
- From: freddie (freddiefreak_yada@c2i.net), 05/08/99.
- Hi ! I just surfed on and happened to land here on your wery good sites,
marvelous job, folks. I like it so much that i putted you up on my 'todays's
url' at: http://home.c2i.net/freddiefreak/index/go.htm freddie (Norway)
- From: marty (), 04/29/99.
- Whateva! check out the small schools in Cuernavaca. Several of them there,
all excellent.
- From: marty (), 04/29/99.
- I was not a member of the Diggers, but I used to leave stuff in the free
box they maintained. A great group.
- From: whateva! (enigma_1608_yada@hotmail.com), 04/27/99.
- I there is anyone that knows about an international little school in
Mexico city E-mail me. I want to find a new school that isn't that big and
new 0-7 years if you know any school like this please E-mail me OK! Luv ya
Dani
- From: Mark Healy (mhealy_yada@mbayweb.com), 04/27/99.
- It's 'We are the People our Parents Warned us Against.' Lame title but a
great book. It's about the Haight and not about Nicholas Von Hoffman. You
know what I mean. (I didn't screw Peter Coyote either) Time is a wonder,
unreal and that is why it boggles the brain so. I turned fifty last year,
sold the house, and moved back to Ca. and near Big Sur (don't tell) because
it is as close to Home as I can get. I must have hitchhiked up and down Big
Sur thirty times the summer of '67. I still flash on it every time I drive
to Ripplewood for breakfast. I camped at Limekiln Creek for two months,
after ? lost his lease because of the Equinox brouha and just prior to the
Hinkle family turning it into a money machine. Anybody there for the big
Labor Day bust? The State runs it now and it is better. The best trip lies
ahead and we will follow our brothers and sisters who have gone before us.
The Communion of the Acid Flash is/was but a shadow of the Heavenly Choir. I
can almost hear the Hum. Say your prayers. Good Night. God Bless. See you
All up Around the Bend.
- From: Mark Healy (mhealy_yada@mbayweb.com), 04/27/99.
- A great book about the Haight in the summer of '67, which was really
energized by all the grams of purple acid that Owsley made in early June, is
by Nicholas Von Hoffman called "We are the People Our Parents Warned us
About." It surprised me to read about events I thought were relatively
on the Q.T. The Portland, Oregon library has a copy so I am sure others do.
If I had not surfed on in here I would have checked Amazon.
- From: Bill Not Bored
(notbored_yada@panix.com), 04/24/99.
- Large and free archive of situationist and lettrist materials are
available at the NOT BORED! website
(please note this is a new location).
- From: Bill Not Bored (notbored_yada@panix.com), 04/24/99.
- Large and free archive of situationist and lettrist materials are
available at the NOT BORED! website at http://www.panix.com/~notbored
(please note this is a new location).
- From: Eric (enoble_yada@crl.com), 04/22/99.
- Liz, the diggers are mentioned in many histories of the 60s that touch on
the counterculture. You might try: Notes from the New Underground, by
Kornbluth; Appetite For Change, How The Counterculture Took On The Food
Industry 1965-1988, by Belasco; Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps, by
Emmett Grogan; Sleeping Where I Fall, by Peter Coyote; The Haight Ashbury: A
History, by Charles Perry; Revolution For The Hell of It, by Abbie Hoffman.
There are others but these are all I can think of at the moment. -en.
- From: Eric (), 04/22/99.
- Jaime, have you looked at the sources I have on the web here? The Digger
Papers was published in summer, 1968, before the Chicago Convention gave the
word Yippies to the world. You can read the full text online here
salud, eric
- From: Liz Sermur (Lizlilac_yada@rocketmail.com), 04/22/99.
- I am a history major with a religion/philosophy composite at a small
college in Michigan. I am extremely interested in this stuff, and would like
to write a paper about it. However, I have no idea who you are and I have
not been able to come across the 60's diggers in any books. If you could
help me, that would be great. I have experience in archival work, and if I
can learn more about this, I might try and get involved in processing those
unpublished archives. Thank you very much, have a good day.
- From: davida deutsch
(presleyluv_yada@AOl.com), 04/22/99.
- hi, my name is davida. Im a first year Cal student attempting to write a
research paper on the Diggers. I was hoping you could refer me to a person
affiliated with the group somehow, or if you could recommend any text books
or other related source sto help me understand the digger history.
- From: jaime fuchs
(jaimeann_yada@oio.net), 04/22/99.
- help, i need help finding about hippies in the year of 1968!!!!! if you
have any info please e-mail me at jaimeann_yada@oio.net thank you
- From: Leah Kruithoff
(lkruithoff_yada@yahoo.com), 04/22/99.
- I am doing a research paper on a counterculter and I am interested in The
Diggers. If you could help me I have one major question.. What
characteristics makes you different from the rest of society? Thanks, Leah
- From: david arbulich
(daffy5_yada@ix.netcom.com), 04/22/99.
- I would really like to say that this web site has been a great help to me.
I am a student and needed to do a project based on the activities of the
sixties, and looked all over for some help on the matter. I think the whole
Digger philosophy is great, and would love it to be the way the world is,
but sad to say I think that there is no way for it to happen. People are
always going to be quite evil in the sense, and won't trust the way
thatothers would. Just look at the killing within the Colorado school. It is
evident, and clear to see that there is an evil presence within the world.
My beliefs are that it is the devil whom does not allow us as a world to
have true peace. Our human nature is to rise above everyone else in any way
possible. I am not saying that everyone does this, but all it takes in the
Digger society is for one person to be the aggressor. Non violent ways would
open the door to these people to take advantage of us and wipe us out. God
knows that there are sick people in the world these days, willing to do just
that. Look at the Kosovo experience right now. The Serbian leader Milosovich
will stop at nothing to gain dominance over his weaker bordering countries.
And what about Hitler? Now I am not saying that the Digger way is wrong, it
would be the best life for everyone if it ever really happened. But people
sin and sin turns to anger, and anger turns to violence, then violence to
death. If you wish to e-mail me and comment, I would be completely open to
your point of view. Once again, thanks for the awesome amount of information
you have provided here....... ........FOR FREE!!!
- From: david arbulich
(daffy5_yada@ix.netcom.com), 04/22/99.
- i appreciate this detailed web page here, and think that if this kind life
stile happened it would be awesome. yet unrealistic. there are to many
aggressors in the world to have this work. what if america became like this,
i personally would love it, but we would be crushed by all the other
countries,
- From: Lacey Collins (shake11_yada@hotmail.com), 04/20/99.
- Wish I was alive then!
- From: Lacey Collins (shake11_yada@hotmail.com), 04/20/99.
-
- From: Patrick (ecalpin_yada@blast.net), 04/18/99.
- Emmett Grogan's RINGOLEVIO is a wonderful book. I truely cherish every
page and could read it a million times.
- From: allan anarchos (loveparty_yada@909mail.dk), 04/17/99.
-
- From: Brad Martin (bmartin_yada@bryant.edu), 04/16/99.
- Hi! I'm currently working on an American Studies Ph.D. thesis that deals
with public performance in the 1960s. The Diggers are one of my chapters.
The Living Theatre, SNCC Freedom Singers, and the Art Workers'
Coalition/Guerrilla Arts Action Group are the others. I would love to hear
from people who have recollections from any of the Diggers' public
performances in Haight-Ashbury, egs., Intersection Game/Death of Money/Death
of Hippie, etc. I look forward to hearing from you.
- From: phantasmagoria
(adaapa_yada@hotmail.com), 04/14/99.
- Food for thought the world is free forming, has been and will be, what's
for us is to ride ride ride it out knead, tuck and pull along the way
- From: chuckwagon
(petbro_yada@cwixnet.com), 04/14/99.
- remember poetry night at the coffee gallery and the folks brayed, howled
spoke loudly, spilled beer, and coffee was two bits, and Leo , w/ dark
glasses and attache, warm san francisco nights,1965- north bitch, and the
news spoke of hate ashbury, who was this ashbury cat that they all hated ?
why did they hate him? Woodstock a world away /free food in the pan handle
around the corner..
- From: Michael McCracken Jr (stonyj_yada@aol.com), 04/13/99.
- CHUCKWAGON....and all those that might be interested, I have completed the
circle to a rather odd end. check my story at www.woodstocknation.org/mccracken.htm
Anyone remembering the Coffee Gallery will remember with some fond memories
Max Hartstein and Michael Bowen. I am really looking for anyone that might
remember my mother, Carole Joseph.....or my father Michael McCracken
- From: chantelle
(ceast_yada@sunny.ncmc.cc.mi.us), 04/12/99.
- I used to squat on Avenue D on the Lower East Side,nyc.I was 19 at the
time,early 90's and really thought the world was going to end but the
somnabulent greed contines.And no courage comes from my part,the natural
elements asleep in their fasting.Any stories about pilgrimages,escape
routes,or following cats through the night.Greatly appreciated.
- From: ronne marino
(ronne_yada@featherlady.com), 04/11/99.
- anyone knowing the wereabouts of pattie davis or mary black 1969 S.F. or
russian river(monte rio) would love to hear from you . I live in Santa Cruz,
Ca. Pattie lived at the page street house before moveing to Olema, Mary
lived on 21st ave. in the city. any of our friend from the old days please
contact me. Love and Peace Ronne Marino
- From: Aron Kay (pieman_yada@pieman.org), 04/01/99.
- Happy Passover and Easter to my comrades who were, are or will be diggers!
Does anyone recall the first Easter Love-in in LA in 1967? I was with Green
Pqwer at the time, prior to joining the Yippies and becoming a
piethrower!anyway, i love getting messages
- From: H.Marie (BATMANCHICK_yada@yahoo.com), 04/01/99.
- i was born three decades too late, but i can still enjoy this great work
of art!!! All of you free spirits out there are one of the worlds last
resorts to everlasting peace. Be cool, be stoned and be free!!!
- From: Victor K Inslee
(vjinslee_yada@lightspeed.net), 03/30/99.
-
- From: Victor K Inslee (vjinslee_yada@lightspeed.net), 03/30/99.
- I no longer live stoned as I once did, yet many of the basic ideas, and
principles of love;peace are still very much a part of me. These were what
atracted me in the 1st place.
- From: boogie (cosmicboogie_yada@hotmail.com), 03/29/99.
- Freedom's just another word, for nothin left to lose. Nothin, It aint
nothin honey if it aint free! -The beautiful Janis Joplin
- From: Sylas Kick
(Sykick_yada@looksmart.com), 03/29/99.
- YIP YIP YIPPIE!!! Just callin out to all the freedom lovers out
there...There will hopefully be a new FREE magazine hitting the scene soon,
Probably called the "starlite free press". If you have something
to say, articles, photos, drawings, personals, etc. I'd love to get them.
Just email your submittance to my email...(SyKick_yada@looksmart.com) and I'll
see to it they get printed. I'll also send a digital copy of the finished
product to your email if you would like. Thanks...Peace
- From: nathaniel sun
(nathanielsun_yada@sixties.zzn.com), 03/22/99.
- u guise rock my world. i love the idea of people giving stuff away. like u
guise rock.PEACE LOVE FREEDOM, FREE THE WORLD
- From: Val (Valeri_yada@xta.com), 03/22/99.
- The 30th Summer of Love Anniversary was great. Die skeptic scum!
- From: Alex mcBride
(amcbride_yada@macalester.edu), 03/15/99.
- look man i am INFATUATED with the sixtees and that whole move and all
else, and feel as if i'm at the wrong time, and am wondering whatr makes a
revolution, what breaks the cyclical world of narcisism and opens a linear,
collective journey into something bigger and greater. A rovolution, whether
social or political, must be a collective effort. what will it take to start
from where we left off? how do we break free from the technocracy, the
anonymity, the system...who will it take to insipiate the journey once
again? keep the questions inside, the revolution and reform must be from
one's viscera, not skin. we shall begin again.
- From: Jon Brooker
(brooker_yada@palmnet.net), 03/12/99.
- Does anyone but me remember the Canadian Peace Research Institute (CAPRI)
on Burrard St Vancouver BC, 1962? Come to think of it, they had the first
use I ever saw of the "Peace Sign" - it still had the little N and
D at the bottom just like Bertrand Russell wanted it. I was just a baby
walking around that beautiful city 20 years old. These memories cut like a
knife.
- From: Aron Kay (pieman_yada@pieman.org), 03/12/99.
- hello once again! this is the mad yippie! pieman from nyc....i did partake
in green power which was a digger-like trip in los angeles which focalized
the griffith park love-ins and fed the freex....now i am involved with the
million marijuana march in nyc on may 1, 1999. you can visit me at http://www.pieman.org
- From: Tomas
(Tomas_yada@apex.net), 03/11/99.
- Check out the Morningstar Scrapbook CD. It is at "The Morningstar
Homepage" Just ask Tuc. It is truely amazing. The word
"Far...out" you will now understand. http://www.harpwro.com/guestbooks/May08:35:513-52.html
- From: gerry m. finn (plinehan79.hotmail.com), 03/10/99.
- hello from the dug out where the original search for good ol Emmett ended
on the subway. I was truely saddened to hear that. All his friends here in
dublin at the Brazen Head remember him fondly and often get sentiment over
the guinness. slan, is mise,Gearoid.
- From: robby (rooster_yada@blazenet.net), 03/08/99.
- i was young then & heard of it only thru the media,but...i still feel
the vibe
- From: MIKE ADAMS (SSn6786699), 03/06/99.
- PEACE AND LONG LIVE THE 60S FROM MARIN CO. MIKEY 6/18/65 SAUSALITO CA.
- From: George McCarthy
(aiongeo_yada@AOL.com), 03/05/99.
- greetings to all of you in the still-free world. i'm looking to reconnect
w/ three friends i've lost track of: Sherry Abstein (of Berkeley ca. '69;
Arcata early '70s); Nina Roseman (Berkeley '69 and Austin, Tx. later); &
Steve Woolmer (Wash.DC, '76-77 and Santa Rosa Ca. thereafter. please pass
the word if you see this and know any of them. other than that -- keep on
keepin on -- Jah love & Jai Baba -- geo
- From: (), 03/04/99.
-
- From: Jeremy Goett (BTUBGN1_yada@aol.com), 03/02/99.
- I don't really have a comment but more of a question? If anyone knows of
any communes around the oregon and colorado areas, please let me know. thanx
- From: Michael McCracken, Jr.
(stonyj_yada@aol.com), 03/01/99.
- CHUCKWAGON....and all those that might be interested, I have completed the
circle to a rather odd end. check my story at www.woodstocknation.org/mccracken.htm
Anyone remembering the Coffee Gallery will remember with some fond memories
Max Hartstein. i am really looking for anyone that might remember my mother,
Carole Joseph.....or my father Michael McCracken
- From: DAVID NADER
(MONKEYMEET_yada@MAILCITY.COM), 03/01/99.
- DIGGERS WERE GREAT EXEMPLARS OF BEING REAL;CUTTING THROUGH UNHEALTHY
ILLUSION;ATTEMPTING TO KEEP THINGS HONEST. KEEP DOING IT.
- From: Mike McQuary
(mmcquary_yada@juno.com), 02/27/99.
- Great site. Thanks. M.
- From: (), 02/26/99.
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- From: chuckwagon (), 02/26/99.
- old oak grove assembly of god bus pullin its psychodelic paint up to the
house of bill wheeler, the artist; just droppin by ,really ,just sayin hi
really , we didnt mean to treat the neighbor mean or rude , or whatever; we
didnt mean to get into trouble in town with the townies , guess thats just
what happens when you try to take hippys out to the country, and bill had a
few goats , was one esmeralda? was one picasso? was there a forest fire and
susannah carrin the goats over the cattle crossing? there was abalone in
them days and wheeler had a cook named tom and he pounded and breaded our
poached steaks and they were soo good and we were soo very bad, cept this
tall pisces gal that swore she could sing the blues after all was'nt she a
pisces ? and could she come w/ us bad boys away from morning star? away from
the country away to the road.... alive alive oh!.......the bus went over the
falls or railing ,am still flailing , its doors at the tate gallery , not in
london, in new spain ......
- From: Steve MacDonald (macduck_yada@technologist.com), 02/25/99.
- I was on Wheeler's Ranch at The back 'o the land with Kathy and our son
Jason for a couple of years. I built the two story house they called the
Tower House, which was just over the hump from Ron and TJ Jennings place
which stood out in the open against the wind. We sat on Karma Korners
singing with Rachel and tripped on the dancing feathers in her hair. We
drank at the yacht club when drinks were being served. I still have my Ranch
Comic book all about The Big Bust and a copy of Alicia's book, Living on the
Earth. Brown Rice Jeff got skinnier and holier every day. Silent Steve stole
our peanut butter until we mixed caynenne pepper in it. The munchies often
drove us to Sherrif Rod's little store for a junk food fix. Melanie was
naked under her velvet robe. Every week people piled onto the big green
flatbed truck that flew over Grusome Gulch into Sebastopol for supplies.
Everyone pigged out on those days - even those who had nothing! That
rancher, what was his name? The one next door who hated us so much...? We
threw kisses at him and ignored his rage. The community garden did allright,
even though very few ever worked in it. What went around came around. How
proud we were of our solitary flush toilet in the center of the land! I hope
the Health Department appreciated the effort. We never used it for fear it
would break down. The hot rock steam baths were not to be missed. The Oak
Grove People were mysterious. The people on The Knoll were even more
mysterious! Razberry Sundown Hummingbird's birth was a wonderous event! Too
many memories to lay down here... If you were there then you know. I wonder
if they still have the Maypole Dance up there every year? I feel a little
like dancing...
- From: Paul Hayes (hazy.goodfella_yada@virgin.net.uk), 02/23/99.
- Just passing by....
- From: C & C (papa_yada@exploremaine.com), 02/23/99.
- To all our wonderful brothers and sisters wherever you are. We love
you!!!!! Visit us anytime.
- From: Jennifer hoge (S_skysierra44_yada@yahoo.com), 02/23/99.
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- From: Laurie (), 02/20/99.
- found this looking for info on my dear friend "Supe" Super
Spade. I wonder if any one is out there that used to ride freight trains
from denver to chi and got busted in Blue Island. Wonder if anyone remembers
Tillie and Monti.
- From: Kristina Kumlin (kristina.kumlin_yada@kultur.halmstad.se),
02/16/99.
- My greatest sorrow is...that I was too young. But I cought the breeze
- From: Arthur (winstanley1648_yada@yahoo.com), 02/13/99.
- Tony, I'm very interested in the digger memorial stone on St. George's
Hill and other related events. This ties in with a site at the center of the
Mall in Washington, D.C. that I'm working on. Please keep me informed!!
- From: redfish (), 02/12/99.
- i never thought i would find anything about emmett and the gang ....man
was i surprised
- From: Jessica (Goldilocks34_yada@hotmail.com), 02/11/99.
- I don't care who you are just E-mail me -K-?
- From: Ronne Marino (ronne_yada@featherlady.com), 02/11/99.
- Hi Everybody I live in Santa Cruz Ca. and I am looking for a Patty Davis
from 1968-to 1971 cole street house in S.F. also from "Black Bear"
in northern Calif. Patty was orginally from Memphis Tenn. and work with the
family also part of Olema, Ca. Family . anyone knowing the were abouts of
the Tall, slim beautiful lady. E-mail me I would love to find her. Peace
Ronne Marino
- From: Tony Gosling (tony_yada@gaia.org), 02/09/99.
- DIGGERS 350th ANNIVERSARY - 1999 - Here in the UK there will be a two-day
Digger conference and various direct action including the placing of a
memorial stone on the original Diggers' site at St. George's Hill Surrey
(now a golf course). All this is being organised by The Land Is Ours
campaign, in conjunction with Southampton University. It will be taking
place in the weeks around 1st April 1999. Full details on The Land Is Ours'
website http://www.oneworld.org/tlio/ Original Digger (and Leveller)
pamphlets can be found on my own site which is at http://www.tlio.demon.co.uk/diggers.htm
- From: Paul Batitsas (Progdzn_yada@pacbell.net), 02/07/99.
- Amazing grace.
- From: Sadhu (sannyasi_yada@hotmail.com), 02/07/99.
- Peace and Love to all the good people!
- From: Winston H. Taylor (Winston_Taylor_yada@Dell.Com), 02/02/99.
- Have spent much time perusing this site and reacquainting myself with
memories of those magical (if often troubled) years. I came to Marin County
from Texas in 1968; have lived there a total of 5 different times since, the
last being 1990-92. Excursions, side-trips, time spent living in Big Sur,
Cave Junction, Oregon area (anyone remember the Takilma community?), a
winter at Olema (I remember Peter Coyote), climbing Mt. Tam, weeks alone in
the surrounding woods on a wing and a prayer, understanding what Brian
Wilson meant by "California Girls", Sons of Champlin, Sundays with
the Dead and the 'Plane in park concerts in The City, many very good friends
(and helpful, too) and some not-so-good ones, Spring, Summer & Fall 1970
at Morningstar Pueblo, New Mexico, Tellus Good Morning. Now living in
Austin, Texas which seems closer to being like Marin back then than Marin is
right now (but--as Dennis Miller might say--that's just my opinion; I could
be wrong)! Worked with Austin psychedelic legend Roky Erickson's (singer of
the 60s group, The 13th Floor Elevators) music org 1977-79 while he was
recording in Marin; Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and Chet Helm
also involved in that project. Anyone remember me?...Can I remember anyone
out there? Write if you do (or even if you don't). Beatiful site, folks!
- From: Emilia Cutrer (ecutrer_yada@jps.net), 02/01/99.
- Anyone know whereabouts of a woman named Cam, who lived in/traveled
through SF, Briceland, and Covelo, sometimes with a man named Diamond, and
last heard of in New Mexico '72-'73? Would dearly love to hear news of this
old friend.
- From: Michael 'kono' Becher (), 01/27/99.
- Hi, I am a KONO and i work in Sydney, Australia
- From: John Angel! (jasd_yada@aloha.net), 01/27/99.
- Digger Tales are amazing but this walk tale is awesome. The Earthwalker
just walked out of town and kept on walking. http://home.earthlink.net/~earthwalker1/
- From: Michael McCracken Jr. (stonyj_yada@aol.com), 01/25/99.
- Anyone remember 73 Commercial St? The three painters: Arthur Monroe,
Michael Bowen, Michael McCracken, and the rooster? Looking for those that
knew my father. Any fond rememberances? I am Hoping to find who peter
chuckwagon (petbro_yada@mci2000.com) refers to as "Susan Heglund"/
Anyone????? Visit my site graciously donated by Dan Eggert
www.woodstocknation.org/mccracken.htm
- From: Al Smith (max.jones_yada@virgin.net), 01/25/99.
- 'There's no such thing as a free meal' not if the Diggers have their way!
It's a concept that's just as beautiful today as it was back then!
- From: Barry Brown (bbrown_yada@seidata.com), 01/23/99.
- Really enjoyed reading and looking at your pages. I had no idea any of
this survived the 60's! A lot of fun and good to see the Diggers are still
at it.
- From: marcus colasurdo (gimmeu_yada@earthlink.com), 01/23/99.
- To Arthur Lisch: thanks for the encouragement ! send me a communique,
giggle or light bulb of your own vision...either here or at my e-mail..I
suppose my e-mail would be more appropraite-i.e., not to take up space from
this magical website...viva diggers !!! feeding the hungry feeds the head
!!! avanti, colasurdo
- From: WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN (), 01/22/99.
- TOO BAD INDEED; THE WAYS OF ANARCHISM ARE INDEED LONELY, NOn STRUCTURED
NONLINEAR, LIFE EMBRACING THINKERS WONT ALWAYS FIT INTO THE SCHEME OF THINGS
: memory though often flawed serves me well enough.AND I REMEMBER IT WAS
THAT WAY WHEN HE LIVED "GROGAN" THAT IS POET WHO LOVED BASKETBALL,
PRINCIPALED INDIVIDUAL, WITH AN INTERNAL ETHOS THAT DIDNT JIVE W/ ALL
THEREFORE A GOOD TIME WAS NOT HAD BY ALL RINGOLEVIO AND SLAMMING AND FEEDING
ASIDE I BELEIVE HIS WORKS HAVE ENOUGH SUBSTANCE TO ENDURE AFTER ALL WERE
HERE AND WHERE IS TRICKY DICK?
- From: louie (lrgmlg_yada@aol.com), 01/19/99.
- I am blown away by this site. Ihave had a copy of "Ringlevio"
for twenty years . I am saddened by the dissparaging and conflicting stories
I read of Emmett Grogan. On the other hand this history is finally being
told in a forum virtually free of establishnent censors.How long I wonder
will this wanton exercise in free spech be tolerated ? If only Emmett was
here....
- From: Arthur (winstanley1648_yada@yahoo.com), 01/14/99.
- Karen - the diggers did break through!
- From: (), 01/14/99.
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- From: Karen (AprilsMimi_yada@aol.com), 01/12/99.
- Too bad the Diggers weren't able to break through to "the
establishment". Imagine what could have been acomplished if they had.
Love to all
- From: Corky Meyers (corkster_yada@pacbell.net), 01/10/99.
- Thirty two years ago I left Haight St to head up to Morningstar. We
stopped at Rancho Olimpali and got sidetracked for a while. This afternoon I
drove down the upper driveway with my wife Terry, Kathy Sweeny and Purple
Paula. The redwood trees and meadows in the mist were alive with the spirit
of Lou and all the folks that the land was home to. It is truly a magical
place and I'm grateful that I was able to finally get there.
- From: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (anon_yada@fyi.net), 01/10/99.
- Does anyone remember a group of people living in caves they dug in the
cliffs by the ocean about 10 miles north of Big Sur in California in the
fall of 1972? I was a 19 year old hitchhiker drifter then & I stayed
briefly in 1 of the caves with a teenage runaway girl named
"Angel".
- From: Michael McCracken, Jr. (stonyj_yada@aol.com), 01/08/99.
- Please visit www.woodstocknation.org/mccracken.htm and see if anything
rings a bell regarding Michael McCracken (my father) or Carole Joseph
McCracken.
- From: cathy maahs-fladung (sascmf_yada@wnt.sas.com), 01/08/99.
- Wonderful archives. Keep it up.
- From: Arthur Lisch (winstanley1648_yada@yahoo.com), 01/08/99.
- Keep up the good work in Baltimore, Marcus!!!!
- From: Derek (hepkat_yada@igc.org), 01/07/99.
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- From: marcus colasurdo (gimmeU_yada@earthlink.com), 01/07/99.
- greetings to all digger sorts out in this strange glow of
terrain...writing to let you all know that inspiration travels the
wavelengths of serendipity and leads directly to the 4 chambered center of
hope. Me ? founder of gimme shelter productions in Baltimore- theatre group
that raises funds for homeless folks also does free food and clothing
giveaways. Trying to keep the warmth turned up during this cold-assed east
coast winter..hope to form an S.F. branch soon. Recently did a show exposing
sweatshops (Nike,et. al.) called "Fashion Slaves"--proceeds went
to feed 200 folks an amazing pasta dinner on the freezing streets of
baltimore right outside city hall...very sweet....very tasty if i do say
so..Anyway, keep the poetry in yer hearts alive---the beginning resembles a
flashbolt of blue sky lighning over the vastest desert imagineable !
- From: marcus colasurdo (gimmeU_yada@earthlink.com), 01/07/99.
- to any and all digger sort upstarts and ancient 4 chambered thinkers:
greetings from Gimme Shelter Productions in baltimore--we are a theatre
group that does benefits for homeless folks and providers of real community
heat....keeping the warmth alive a wee bit here during a cold, cold esat
coast january....feel free to e-mail..planning a S.F. branch. Taking on the
sweatshops with a show called "Fashion Slaves". Keep the poetry
alive !!!! Free words lead to free thought--or is it the other way around ?
Either road wakes the heart up ! Feed the hungry......Avanti ! Marc
colasurdo, gimme shelter productions, baltimore
- From: marcus colasurdo (gimmeU_yada@earthlink.com), 01/07/99.
- to any and all digger sort upstarts and ancient 4 chambered thinkers:
greetings from Gimme Shelter Productions in baltimore--we are a theatre
group that does benefits for homeless folks and providers of real community
heat....keeping the warmth alive a wee bit here during a cold, cold esat
coast january....feel free to e-mail..planning a S.F. branch. Taking on the
sweatshops with a show called "Fashion Slaves". Keep the poetry
alive !!!! Free words lead to free thought--or is it the other way around ?
Either road wakes the heart up ! Feed the hungry......Avanti ! Marc
colasurdo, gimme shelter productions, baltimore
- From: Pam Hanna (Read) (phanna_yada@law.vanderbilt.edu), 01/06/99.
- To the French Digger fans: Chris ? and Jacques Guiod: I'm glad the Digger
documentary got on French TV. Question: did it include some footage of
interviews at MorningStar? Reason I ask is that I happened to
serendipitously be there when a couple French ladies & their cameraman
shot some footage of us (Ramon Sender, Vivian Gotters, Sandi Stine and me)in
the redwood grove at Morningstar. Asked us a bunch of questions about how
the Diggers came to be connected to M* & I just wondered whether that
sequence made it off the cutting room floor or not. As to your question,
Jacques, about how the Diggers could keep body & soul together apart
from gifts and robbery, first you have to understand that the U.S. economy
was different then from the way it is now. At that time, you could buy 100
lbs of brown rice for $10. The Diggers just skimmed off the fat of the land
& made use of food and goods other people would have thrown away. There
was work involved. They had to gather it. And it's still true that we waste
enough every day in this country to feed another good-sized country. Sad but
true. Neither through gifts OR robbery, the Diggers GLEANED (like gleaning
the wheat from the fields). Would that we had more gleaners now and fewer
wasters!
- From: Robert Kutchar (igotdemblu_yada@aol.com), 01/05/99.
- Stoney move... forgot to give the Hendrix URL... here it is... http://www.mcarecords.com/artists/artist.asp?artistid=63
- From: Robert Kutchar (igotdemblu_yada@aol.com), 01/05/99.
- Check out the official Jimi Hendrix - Experience Hendrix site! Groovy
sound bytes!! Peace and love for the new year
- From: Billy Joe Houts (bjh45_yada@hotmail.com), 01/03/99.
- I was at Haight& Ashbury in July 1967, and at the Morning Star Ranch
around August or Sept. 1967. I'll never forget the high!
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