The glory days of pot, the glories of librarianship

[Mike Weaver]

 Greg Montalbano suggested
>Maybe should take this off-list (as I'm sure the others would rather spend
>more time on the great "small-town librarian debate"):

It's a damn sight more relevant to this list than some stuff which gets
chewed over.  The great majority of threads here develop out of some
discussion involving TP's writing. Most of them, even those heading away
from source at half light speed, are likely to be of constructive interest
to sufficient numbers of p-listers to stay on list unless someone else says
"Be off with you, tiresome wretches..." 
        Like a good number of us on this list TP found his drive and
direction in the sub cultures which blossomed in the sixties.  Sorting the
myths and lost dreams out from the resonant and lasting desires and wisdoms
gained has got to be a useful exercise.

Peter Giordano wrote
> but the idea of  a gaggle of urban Robin Hoods is merely
>myth (alas)

On that note check out 'Ringolevio' by Emmett Grogan. It is a strange book,
but the third part covering 66-69 in the San Francisco scene is salutory
reading.  Grogan and others (incl Peter Coyote the actor) formed the
Diggers.  Hip political and community activists, propagandists, agit prop
thespians,  they  were clearly a vital part of what went on and as near to
yr urban Robin Hoods as you are likely to get.  Emmett's analysis of what
was going on makes a fine counterpoint to the peace and love mythology (E.g.
: the Hashbury traders and other commercially minded denizens enjoying the
publicity that the coverage of the Human Be-in got -Jan 67- thinking of
profits to be made when schools and colleges closed and the hordes of wanna
be hippies hit town. The Summer of Love as a cash crop! The Diggers and
others not concerned with profit thinking about likely social consequences
and trying to prepare for them )

TTFN
Mike