Peace, love & revolution
Aug 21, 2022
4 minutes
by GRAEME LAY
JUMPING SUNDAYS: The rise and fall of the counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Nick Bollinger (AUP, $49.99) is published on August 25.
The title is derived from a spring day in 1969, when thousands of mostly young people defied Auckland City’s by-laws and came together in Albert Park to dance, sing, play games, make music and smoke marijuana. A band played on the park’s rotunda. It was the biggest such gathering, and it was illegal. The Albert Park mass “Sunday Jumping” was a first, and the participants were described by puzzled onlookers as, “hippies, freaks, weirdos, radicals and
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