The cosmic cultural contagion that broke out in San Francisco in 1967 has become American lore. But those who were actually there remember it differently. An abbreviated history of a complicated time Learn More →

Sex, drugs and rock and roll. That was certainly a big part of what went on 50 years ago. But the Summer of Love was also about so much more Learn More →

It is time to take off those once cool granny glasses and stop being nostalgic about the Summer of Love, those great days in 1967 when all the young people in America came to San Francisco with flowers in their hair. Learn More →

They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s American orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an enduring legacy Learn More →