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Hippie finery?
We are actively seeking a broader base to help with collecting artifacts, pictures, snapshots, and hippie stories. To preserve our collective history consider donating or bequeathing items through us to the Atlanta History Center. Bequest your stuff to the best preservation available where their significance will be honored and appreciated into the future. 
Can you contribute your part? http://www.thestripproject.com/Hippies_Stories/Entries/2007/4/9_Wanna_Tell_your_story.htmlHippie_Finery.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
- Calling all Atlanta Hippies past and present-
 Peace Brothers and Sisters!

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“A Story from The Strip”

Listen to our WABE interview.

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The Peachtree Strip Project
Do you believe 
The Summer of Love 
was 43 years ago? And July 2010 was forty years after the 
Byron Pop Festival?
As the walrus said, “the time has come to talk of many things...” 
The landscape is changing, people and memories are fading; it’s time to tell the tales. Already many Atlantans are unaware of the story of Atlanta’s own time when the Hippie tribe roamed the Earth around the Peachtree Strip and Piedmont Park. 





Surprise!
We’re still here, a bit less flamboyant and a bit more aged and wrinkled, but still dancing joyously and letting our Freak flags fly on occasion. 
Brothers and Sisters, we need to get our story down right before "The Man’s” official version is the only one available to the future. 
 No one of us has the story. The story was that there were suddenly all of us visible at once.
 

1968...ch-ch-changes. We are honored to be involved in the 1968 Project headed by the Minnesota Historical Society. Please check their website. http://www.the1968exhibit.org/

The exhibit opens next in Pittsburg Feb. 2, 2013

Voices from The Freak Era- Listen to oral history tales from the people who created Atlanta’s hip scene. Storytellers supreme - Enjoy. NEW. What do you think?http://www.thestripproject.com/interview%20site/Oral_History_of_The_Strip/Interviews/Interviews.htmlhttp://www.thestripproject.com/interview%20site/Oral_History_of_The_Strip/Interviews/Interviews.htmlshapeimage_9_link_0shapeimage_9_link_1


Thanks to GSU The Bird is now online

Hooray! Thanks to a hard working group.

September 14, 15, 2012 a Historical Marker will be erected to note the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival, which took place in Byron, GA, from July 3-5, 1970, one of the largest rock festivals of the 1960s era. (Jimi Hendrix performing to the largest American audience of his career, and Macon’s Allman Brothers Band on their launching pad to national fame.)

The 1970 Georgia Rock Festival is to be, finally, commemorated with the Historical Marker & Long-awaited Preview of Feature-length Documentary Film

 

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How Rock Festivals Helped Change America  by Bill Mankin.

On our Pop Festivals page.


Thanks to GSU The Great Speckled Bird is now online