Countercultural visionaries who have become consummate symbols of the 1960s.

Abjuring business and suburban conformity hippies envisioned alternatives that included freedom, shared possessions, experimentation in drugs, sexuality and lifestyles and a return to nature. While some have maintained this commitment, for others—and for media representations of the 1960s—hippies have been reduced to flowing colorful clothes, psychedelia and exotic symbolism and memories of a drug culture, undercutting the ideas of political and economic reform that also underpinned “tuning in, turning on and dropping out.”