Washington (U.S. State) Culture - Hippie, Bigfoot, List of Washington State Symbols, Geoduck, Penny Arcade Expo, Festal at Seattle Center (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 225. Not illustrated. Chapters: Hippie, Bigfoot, List of Washington State Symbols, Geoduck, Penny Arcade Expo, Festal at Seattle Center, Rainbow Trout, Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival, Makah, J. P. Patches, Miss Washington, Gnomedex, Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Sakura-Con, Bumbershoot, Music of Washington, Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Northwest Hip Hop, Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival, Emerald City Comicon, Taproot Theatre Company, Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show, 2d or Not 2d Animation Festival, Crypticon, Studio East, Brickcon, Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras, Clickpop Records, the Gorge Amphitheatre, Gamestorm.org, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the Washington Medal of Merit, Estrus Records, Washington, My Home, Jake the Alligator Man, Women Painters of Washington, the Seattle Review, Bellingham Theatre Guild, Bite of Seattle. Excerpt: The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, and was swiftly spreading to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The early "hippies" ideologies included the countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Some created their own social groups and communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as marijuana and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness. In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as ji...