Flower Staying-Power
Hippies Hang on to Their Counter-Cultural Groove

By Oliver Libaw

May 23, 2002

The Grateful Dead are gone, the original Woodstock is ancient history, but the hippie movement just keeps truckin' on.

In one corner of New York's Central Park last weekend, it looked like 1969 never left, as the New York Rainbow held its local "Gathering of the Tribes," complete with a drum circle, incense, and 150-odd people sporting the shoeless, tie-dyed look that is synonymous with hippie culture.
"We're everywhere," Aron Kay, the "Yippie Pie Man," said with a grin as he listened to eight drummers pound out a syncopated rhythm.

"We're still everywhere."

Kay has been an activist and self-proclaimed hippie since the mid 1960s, and he says the movement is still alive and well.

Although most will admit hippies' ranks have thinned considerably since its 1960s and 1970s heyday, there are still thousands of flower children in America.

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