The Doors played Hi Corbett, granola rocked our peace-loving taste buds and, my oh my, the flower-child fashions ....

Welcome to the 50th anniversary of the summer of 1967 when America’s counterculture movement encouraged free love and free thought to go along with sex, drugs and rock and roll.

We’re taking you back to that summer to check out the fashions and music and a bit of the politics from people who were on the sidelines and in the thick of it .

We’re also looking at what’s going on in the summer of ’17 at many of Tucson’s favorite places.


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Cathalena E. Burch