Volume 2, Issue 1 ISSN
1097-4156 September 1998
Contents:
INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS
CONTRIBUTIONS
COOL LINKS
SPONSOR AND CONTEST
COOL LISTS
QUOTES
COOL GOODIES
FEATURED WORDS & TUNES
SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO
Welcome to all the new subscribers who have joined us over the last month!
So, what's it all about man?
Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited is a moderated newsletter/list about the time between the mid 60s and mid 70s. It was designed to examine and present a positive nostalgia of a time since past. It is also designed to provide a forum for you to share your feelings, thoughts and experiences from that time frame. Please participate to help this community grow.
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Due to a hard drive crash and a few other misc. items, this issue of KOTRV is much later than usual. Sorry about that. I lost quite a bit, but I was able to get most of my important stuff back and going again. Oh, the wonders of modern technology.
It may take me a few more days to get the KOTRV website up to speed.
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The voting results for the 1960s stamps are in.
People and Events:
"I Have a Dream"
The Vietnam War
The Peace Corps
Arts & Entertainment:
The Beatles
Woodstock
"Star Trek"
Sports:
Super Bowl Kick Off
Green Bay Packers
Roger Maris Breaks Home Run Record
Science & Technology:
Man Walks on the Moon
The Computer Chip
Lasers
Lifestyle:
The Peace Symbol
Ford Mustang
Barbie Doll Steps Out
I believe the 60s stamps are to come out in June of 1999.
Voting for the 1970s closes on September 30th, so the time frame is very short.
Vote for your favorite 70's stamps. You can vote for up to 3 stamps in above categories.
Go to the official voting web site at: http://stampvote.msn.com and vote today!
Well, we didn't have a winner from last month's contest? So, I guess the contest for the XL tie-dye is still on. Look for the details in the Contest and Sponsor section.
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More fluff... less stuff...
So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, feel like a one eyed seed in a tumble weed in the belly of a rolling stone with James, put on your love beads, your headband, bell bottomed pants, put a flower in your hair, get yourself in the proper state of mind, kick back, and experience the rest of the newsletter.
The Past
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet
ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past
requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past
requires a constant imaginative effort.
Gaston Bachelard
Please feel free to add your 2 cents worth - share your thoughts, feelings, and general good-times. We would all love to hear from you! Send your comments to:
<mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com>
From: JZSG84B@prodigy.com (MRS ANDREA E CLOSS)
Date sent: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:22:12, -0500
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Peace Sign
I am taking a college Social Science class on the 1960's (which I have lived through) and have a question I need an answer to, for a research paper and presentation.
I remember hippies giving each other the "peace sign" with their fore and middle fingers, of their right hand, into a "V". I read somewhere, a long time ago, the hippies adapted this from Winston Churchill when he "flashed V" but that "V" meant "V for Victory" which is victory in war. This does not connect with peace movement of the hippie culture. I need to know how the hippies adapted the "V" for peace and why.
I would like to open my presentation and have audience participation by giving them the "peace sign" as well as saying "peace" to the group and they would return the "peace sign" back to me (which is much nicer than today's hand gestures). I would then explain, to the class, how expressing peace with the "V" became part of the hippie culture.
Can you direct me to a reliable source such as a book? I have been searching for some time and cannot find this any where. Any assistance you can give me would be appreciated.
Remember . . .
war is not healthy for children or other living things; today is the first day of the rest of your live; take time to stop and smell the flowers.
I enjoyed your website / newsletter and will become a subscriber.
Thank you,
Andrea Closs
Moderator's Comment:
And now the rest of the story:
From: JZSG84B@prodigy.com (MRS ANDREA E CLOSS)
Date sent: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:17:10, -0500
To: vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Peace Sign
-- [ From: Andrea Closs * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
Dear Vincent:
Thanks for the helpful website by the University of Virginia. I did find the answer on how the hippies adapted giving the peace sign by hand and it started out as a misunderstanding. Here's a quick summary of what I have copied from the website
(that is shown below):
- Emmett Grogan, in his book "Ringolevio (P. 253), tells the (supposed) origin of the V sign for peace.
- To make a long story short ... he was arrested and when released the next day, he flashed reporters the V but a backwards V (back of the hand facing toward the individual you wish this upon). This backwards V in Ireland/England is equivalent to the American middle finger up. When Grogan's photo was published in the newspapers, he was greeted - not in the reversed way but the way we know the peace sign (palm toward the person, Winston Churchill-style) - as they wished
him "Peace". He tried explaining that they were misunderstanding what he meant in that photograph but to no avail. This quickly became the greeting of all hippies.
HERE'S THE INFO AS COPIED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
WEBSITE. This gives the best explanation of how the V was adapted by the hippies. There was more than one citing, by several different individuals, all pointing toward Emmett Grogan as the "inventor" of the peace sign:
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>From sixties Sun Apr 16 15:47:25 1995
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From: sixties@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
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Subject: Emmett Grogan and the Peace Sign (2 posts)
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Sender: James Sullivan <sull@bradley.bradley.edu>
Subject: Re: Peace sign.
On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, daniel perlstein wrote:
> The Peace Sign.
>
> Can anybody tell me its origins? Dan Perlstein
>
One more note on this issue. I came across an article in the 3 Aug. 1970 _New York Times_ about right wing pamphlets claiming it was "a broken cross or a Communist inspired anti-Christian device."
And for the two-finger peace gesture, there's another dubious account of origin. In his memoire _Ringolevio_, Emmett Grogan claims that he invented it by accident: he made an obscene gesture to a SF newspaper photographer which people mis-saw
when the photo was published. The children of Haight-Ashbury then greeted him with the gesture they thought they saw and used it for a political meaning they assumed it had . And Grogan found himself helpless to correct their misapprehension. Whatever the truth of that, I don't suppose any of us can
remember with much precision when we first saw that Churchillian gesture and associated it with peace in Vietnam, rather than victory in Europe.
Jim Sullivan
Dept. of English
Bradley U
sull@bradley.bradley.edu
BEST EXPLANATION STARTS HERE
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Emmett Grogan in
Ringolevio (p. 253) tells the (supposed) origin of the V-sign as the peace sign of the 60s.
The Diggers had planned an event for Haight Street on Halloween. The idea was for pedestrians to play the "Intersection Game" whereby the goal of the game was to form as many possible geometric shapes by walking from one corner to another. If you could finish all the shapes, you won the game. At the same time, the Diggers had brought large street theater puppets that fit over the puppeteer's head, and raised up to a height of eight to ten feet. When the police arrived, they ordered everyone to disperse. The puppets attempted to engage the police in debate over the specific penal code they were attempting to enforce. Whereupon the police arrested the puppeteers along with the puppets. (Later the Diggers always laughed because they said the puppets were actually beaten in the police station.)
Anyhow ... when the Diggers were released the next morning, a local news photographer caught them in a now famous pose on the steps of the local jail. Emmett made the backwards-V sign that he explains in R. is the Irish equivalent of the lone American middle finger salute ("Up Yours"). That morning, as he was making his rounds in the Haight, people who recognized him from the photo started flashing him the V-sign (but not reversed as he had posed, rather in the way Churchill had flashed V for Victory), and greeting him, "Peace, brother." He tried to correct the first few greeters by showing them the correct position and meaning of his V-sign pose, but to no avail. It became the new greeting among the hippies.
I haven't read any other accounts of the origin of the 60s finger peace sign. The photograph in the San Francisco Chronicle definitely appeared on the front page of the (Nov. 1?, 1966) edition. A lot of Diggers were put off by Emmett's book because he seems to put himself at the center of everything. (Peter Coyote once said something like, "Emmett struts, everyone else walks in Ringolevio.") Yet, most of the
internal points of authority can be collaborated through other documents.
At least, it makes a good story, no?
Eric Noble
enoble@crl.com=================================================
This does make for a good "story". Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I have to get back to writing my research paper.
Thanks again,
Andrea Closs
Moderator's Comment:
Thank you Andrea!
From: Brieanne Morabito <moonlight-design@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Vincent Gearhart" <vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: Re: subscribe
Date sent: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:46:08 -0600
Hi,
Brieanne Morabito is my real name, but I preffered to be called Dharma. I'm 13, I live in New York and I am very interested in the 60's. I do not like to see people strive to bring woodstock back, because they can't. They have the music, but not the spirit. They don't believe in getting back to nature, or standing up for their rights, or to make the world a better place. They just want to party, and abuse drugs. I believe in drug use only for the purpose of medicinal causes or expanding your mind. Not to do it because everyone else is.
I like the 60's because I think I could fit in better. Everyone respected each other and practiced tolerance, something I think we should learn how to do today. The world is at lost, and it's too late to convert the whole planet. But we can make an honest effort. Who wants to sit around and let everything decay and become dirty and polluted? we're destroying our own lives and future. We're destroying our children's and grandchildren's futures. We're destroying mother earth and God's gift. A product of his love.
It's terrible.
That is why I subscribe and visit many hippy pages. I believe these pages are the right kind of motiviation for our generation to make a change.
Thank-you for your time.
Dharma :-)
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Oh, the memories! Just started this book for the first time and have been having a wild, psychedelic trip down memory lane. The times, the people, and the events that shaped (in many ways) a lifestyle we all remember.
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