Category: September 5

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The Birth — and Death — of “the Hippies”

9 years ago
Robert Deis

Credit for the origin of the term “hippies” is generally given to San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon. Fallon coined the term in an article published in the San Francisco Examiner…

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Kerouac’s “mad ones” continue to “burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles…”

11 years ago
Robert Deis

On September 5, 1957, the first edition of Jack Kerouac’s seminal book On the Road was published by Viking Press. This semi-autobiographical novel, written in a loose, stream-of-consciousness (and sometimes…