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“Little Know Hippie Facts” . . .

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Peter and I were working together one day and talking about music. . . Naturally, when old guys start talking music, it usually leads to Bruce Springsteen and works backwards from there. And then somehow, we started coming up with these silly ideas about comically denoting great moments in the ’60’s- which led to “Little Known Hippie Facts.”

For some of these you have to really know your “hippie trivia.” We lived it, so it’s kind of second nature. . .  We came up with a dozen or so of these and sprinkled them into the Green House every once in a while just to keep it weird.

Hearing about two young girls in Texas who had their lemonade stand shut down last week reminded me of this . . . and so we’ll start with this one.  Let us know if you get it or have your own Kool Aid or lemonade stand story.

Ken’s was successful, and it looks like the hippy philosophy is still alive and well!

Little Known Facts in Hippy History #2. . .

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A few weeks ago, I got to see Melanie sing in Colllinsville, CT- which reminded me of this old Green House comic (make the Woodstock connection?) . . .

PLEASE don’t think we’re dissing Neil with this comic- we LOVE Neil Young. But, we’re cartoonists and look for any way to get a laugh.

As I look back on these “Hippy” strips- I try to justify why we thought they worked into our Green House concept. . . out of the blue, single panel glimpses into the ’60’s. . . yeah, that fits right in with a comic about environmental consciousness? . . .  But it kinda does. The essence of the hippy movement was getting back to what’s real, what’s down to earth, what’s organic?

“We are stardust
We are golden
(Billion year old carbon)
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.”

~from “Woodstock” by Joni Mitchell

I read that Joni and Neil were friends up in Canada in the early days.  A serendipitous meeting of stardust.