[FairfieldLife] Re: The Days of Our Lives (Youth)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.hippy.com/php/article-15.html I find timelines can be interesting -- jogging memories of what we were doing when these events occurred -- and can help in reconstrucing other timelines like the TMO (this course had to be near these dates because I remember the announcement about ... dying. Start of a TMO Timeline (TMO stuff preceeded by * -- interspersed with the rest of counter culture / world. Please feel free to add. 1967 * Early 1967 or Late 1966, MMY announces he will return to India and go into lifetime silence. Jan 14 - Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000, S.F. Jan 27 - US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space Feb - 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border Feb - Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday Mar - Scientist report LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated). Mar - The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon Donovan's song Mellow Yellow) Mar 3 - Alice B. Toklas dies Mar 18 - First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000 tons of oil onto English shores Mar 26 - Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend * Spring 1967 TMer Robbie Krieger, part of LA SIMS Gayley Ave UCLA wave of initiates writes Lighter My Fire. Other song written by Krieger or Morrison -- later on first Doors album Take it as It Comes. Apr 5 - Grayline starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury Apr 10 - Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft demonstrations Apr 15 - Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock May - Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have dropped acid. May 19 - First U.S. air strike on Hanoi May 20 - Flower Power Day in NYC 1967 Jun 2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles released. Jun 16 - Monterey Pop Festival Early Summer 1967 -- Beatles initiated into TM Jun 21 - Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park Jun 25 - Beatles sing All You Need Is Love on TV 1967 Jun 30 - 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam July - The Summer of Love in San Francisco July - Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore July 1 - Sgt. Pepper hits #1 July 11 - Newark riots start long hot summer July 24 - 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history July 26 - H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland * July 29 - Door's Light My Fire and Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale vie for #1 Aug 26 - Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced hits the charts Aug 27 - Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein's death * Above is in original timeline. I beleive it is partially an error. the Beattles were with M in London. yes? Rishikesh course was spring of 1968. Sept - Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu, stays in India follows him until he meets his guru. Sept 15 - Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl * Early Oct 1967 MMY lectures on west coast. Two public lectures at filled Berkeley Community Theatre. Says no need to give up anything for cosmic consciousness. Crowd cheers. Flyers handed out inviting all Students of the World to gain Cosmic Consciousness in five years. TM 2x day for 20 min and a week residence cours 2x (?) / year. Berekely Channing Ave Center opened. Grand building (former upscale frat house) Oct 3 - Woody Guthrie dies Oct 8 - Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops Oct 12 - Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills with Janis Joplin at top of LP charts. Oct 20 - Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of three civil rights worker Oct 21-22 - Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon Oct 21 - Diggers exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate, 647 arrested Oct 26 - Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws or interfere with recruitment Nov 2-7, or so, people lined up around the block to be initiated into TM. Jerry Jarvis, Carol Hanbie, Pete Ports (I think), Colin Harrision (?), Terry Gustafson (get back jojo) intiated day and night for a week. Pauley Ballroom at UC Berkeley filled for three-nights checking. Awesome group meditations. * UCB dedicates a large room on campus as meditation room. Nov 14 - Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution Nov 20 - National Commission on Product Safety established Dec - Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour Dec - 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date, 60% died in 1967. Dec - Stop the Draft movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide protests ensue. Dec 5 - 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center. 585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock Dec 5 - Beatles open Apple Shop in London Dec 8 - Otis Redding records Dock of the Bay Dec 10 - Otis
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Days of Our Lives (Youth)
My God, how did we ever get through those four years? Quite a trip to read this. On one hand, it feels like stuff you'd read about in a history book, long over and done with; and on the other, there's the very vivid personal memories of it all happening. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.hippy.com/php/article-15.html I find timelines can be interesting -- jogging memories of what we were doing when these events occurred -- and can help in reconstrucing other timelines like the TMO (this course had to be near these dates because I remember the announcement about ... dying. A few key years (many more on link) 1967 Jan 14 - Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000, S.F. Jan 27 - US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space Feb - 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border Feb - Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday Mar - Scientist report LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated). Mar - The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon Donovan's song Mellow Yellow) Mar 3 - Alice B. Toklas dies Mar 18 - First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000 tons of oil onto English shores Mar 26 - Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend Apr 5 - Grayline starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury Apr 10 - Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft demonstrations Apr 15 - Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock May - Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have dropped acid. May 19 - First U.S. air strike on Hanoi May 20 - Flower Power Day in NYC 1967 Jun 2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles released. Jun 16 - Monterey Pop Festival Jun 21 - Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park Jun 25 - Beatles sing All You Need Is Love on TV 1967 Jun 30 - 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam July - The Summer of Love in San Francisco July - Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore July 1 - Sgt. Pepper hits #1 July 11 - Newark riots start long hot summer July 24 - 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history July 26 - H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland July 29 - Door's Light My Fire and Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale vie for #1 Aug 26 - Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced hits the charts Aug 27 - Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein's death Sept - Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu, stays in India follows him until he meets his guru. Sept 15 - Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl Oct 3 - Woody Guthrie dies Oct 8 - Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops Oct 12 - Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills with Janis Joplin at top of LP charts. Oct 20 - Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of three civil rights worker Oct 21-22 - Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon Oct 21 - Diggers exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate, 647 arrested Oct 26 - Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws or interfere with recruitment Nov 14 - Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution Nov 20 - National Commission on Product Safety established Dec - Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour Dec - 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date, 60% died in 1967. Dec - Stop the Draft movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide protests ensue. Dec 5 - 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center. 585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock Dec 5 - Beatles open Apple Shop in London Dec 8 - Otis Redding records Dock of the Bay Dec 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash Dec 22 - Owsley busted, stops making acid Dec 31 - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, friends pronounce themselves Yippies 1968 Jan 16 - Youth International Party (Yippies) founded Jan 18 - Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against the war Jan 22 - B-52 carrying H-bomb crashes in Greenland Jan 23 - USS Pueblo seized by Korea Jan 31 - Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive Feb - Timothy Leary evicted from Millbrook house Feb - Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh on the Ganges river. Mia Farrow, Donovan follow. Feb 8 - George Wallace announce candidacy for President on law and order platform Mar 12 - Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote in presidential primary Mar 16 - My Lai massacre 200 - 500 Vietnamese villagers killed Mar 16 - Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy for President Mar 31 - LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial Vietnam bombing halt Apr 4 - Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis Apr - The week following Martin
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Days of Our Lives (Youth)
on 11/14/05 2:36 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My God, how did we ever get through those four years? Quite a trip to read this. On one hand, it feels like stuff you'd read about in a history book, long over and done with; and on the other, there's the very vivid personal memories of it all happening. Those were fascinating times. I wish I had hitchhiked from Connecticut to Haight-Ashbury in the summer of '67 instead of from New Jersey to Los Angeles in the spring of '68. But these are fascinating times too, and may become much more so as the next half-dozen years unfold. More cataclysmic I predict, but also more subjectively transformational for many of us. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
