Greetings--
I come to understand that you may be saying that SCA came out of the
"hippie" movement. If I am understanding correctly, I would like to say
that
SCA was not an outgrowth of the hippie movement, it grew from a history
club
at Berkley.
I thought the fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley was supposed to have
started it.
It's my understanding that a little of each of these last two are true. (As
for the hippie connection, there's often an assumption that anyone at
Berkley in the late 60s must have been a hippie, but that's not necessarily
true. I suspect that hippie-ness, like most things, existed on a spectrum).
As I understand it, there was a group of friends at Berkley. Some were into
history, some into Tolkein, some into early music, and some into various
combinations thereof. So you had that interesting mix of ideas right from
the beginning. MZB was definitely part of the original group, but she
didn't "start" it. I don't think any one person can claim credit.
Susan
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