Hippies.
Some call them flower children. Others refer to them as drug users or stoners. People of younger generations think of '69's Woodstock, of peace and love, of an old, hidden picture of a parent decked out in beads and a flower garland.
But was that really what the hippie movement was about? And where are the bell-bottom wearing, peace-sign waving hippies of the '60s today?
In a developing independent film, Beverly Seckinger, an associate professor and interim director of the UA's School of Media Arts, will answer those questions.
"The people I'm interested in are not the ones who had a little flirtation with the counterculture when they were 18 or 20 and then woke up one day and renounced it," Seckinger said. "The people I'm interested in never renounced that time in their life or the importance of it.
Some call them flower children. Others refer to them as drug users or stoners. People of younger generations think of '69's Woodstock, of peace and love, of an old, hidden picture of a parent decked out in beads and a flower garland.
But was that really what the hippie movement was about? And where are the bell-bottom wearing, peace-sign waving hippies of the '60s today?
In a developing independent film, Beverly Seckinger, an associate professor and interim director of the UA's School of Media Arts, will answer those questions.
"The people I'm interested in are not the ones who had a little flirtation with the counterculture when they were 18 or 20 and then woke up one day and renounced it," Seckinger said. "The people I'm interested in never renounced that time in their life or the importance of it.
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