Counterculture

What is Counterculture

• Counterculture – by Timothy Leary
• Prometheus as Counterculture Archetype

Books & Literary Events

• Book Review: A Dog’s Head by Jean Dutourd
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• The Girls – Emma Cline
• Hunter S. Thompson Funeral
• Mad Girl’s Love Song – Sylvia Plath
• Sylvia Plath Fig Tree Metaphor
• Tulips – Sylvia Plath

Communal Living

• Starting a Commune
• Rainbow Family of Living Light
• Rebirth of American Communes

Communes

• Bayboro Community -St. Petersburg, Florida – Active
• Cambia – Louisa, Virginia – Active
• The Farm Community – Summertown, Tennessee – Active

Cults

• Utopia Gone Awry: Profiles in America Cults

Manson Family

• Dianne Lake: “Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties”
• Leslie Van Houten interview 12/29/1969
• Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme
• Manson Family Movies

Drug Culture

• 4/20 Day
• Bicycle Day
• Cheap High: Robotripping
• Counterculture and Drug Use
• Drug and Drinking Cultures
• Heroin by The Velvet Underground
• LSD: A Primer
• MDMA (Ecstasy)
• Psilocybin
• Slang for Illegal Drug Combinations
• Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.

Hippie Crafts

• Drive Like A Hippie
• Hippie Activities to do Around a Campfire
• How to Grow an Avocado Sprout from a Seed in a Jar
• Pinto Pants

Hippie Food

• Hippie Pantry
• Hippie Food – Recipes

Films & TV

French Films:

• Amélie

German Films:

• Metropolis

Music Events

• The Beatles and Astrid Kirchherr
• The Beatles Monopolize Top 5 Billboard Hits
• Billie Holiday’s Birthday
• The Day the Music Died

Songs

• Pictures Of You – The Cure
• Break On Through (To the Other Side) – The Doors
• Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan
• Masters of War – Bob Dylan
• With God On Our Side – Bob Dylan
• Box of Rain – Grateful Dead
• Knocking Round the Zoo – James Taylor
• Heroin – The Velvet Underground

Feminism

Feminist Movement

• 1913 March on Washington
• 19th Amendment Ratified
• Amelia Earhart to NYT
• Britain’s Health Education Council Poster 1969
• Ecofeminism
• International Women’s Day Origins
• Mary Wollstonecraft: Emancipation From Domesticity
• The Match Girls’ Strike
• Women’s Equality Day

Feminist Profiles

• Angela Davis
• Frida Kahlo Accident
• Huda Sha’arawi
• Margaret Sanger

Most Admired Women Authors

• Anne Sexton
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Dorothy Parker
• Edith Wharton
• Isak Dinesen
• Marie de France
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Sylvia Plath
• Virginia Woolf

Medieval Women Authors

• Christine de Pizan
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Marguerite Porete
• Marie de France

Feminist Quotes

• Edith Wharton Quotes for Women’s History Month
• Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes for Women’s History Month
• Sylvia Plath on Writing
• Virginia Woolf. from “To the Lighthouse”

Geekspeak

Geekspeak Definitions

• 404
• Anthropomorphize
• As Mad as a Hatter
• Cryptography (noun)
• Graffiti Terms
• What is a geek?

1970’s – 1980’s Vintage Tabletop Games

• Barbarian Prince
• Car Wars