East Village

By Steven Hager

In the mid-1960's, a teenage, hippie crash-pad scene developed in New York's East Village. Many of the arrivals were escaping repressive or abusive home environments. During this time, I was forced to run away twice before my father would consent for me to grow long hair. Today they call it "The Generation Gap," but it was really a Generation War. However, life in the East Village got increasingly bizarre as hard drug use increased, revealing a dark underbelly to the emerging hippie subculture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven Hager
• Release date: Jan 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465990198

Steven Hager

Counterculture iconoclast, who documented hip hop's birth, founded the Cannabis Cup and unveiled the JFK and Lincoln assassinations.

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East Village

by Steven Hager

with watercolors by the author

art and text copyright 1967 by Steven Hager

Published by Steven Hager at Smashwords 2012

New edition with watercolors released 2013

EPUB ISBN 978-1-4659-9019-8

Dedicated to Harold Chang

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This story was intended to capture the spirit of the young people that inhabited New York's East Village 1966-7. The author is deeply indebted to Robert Henderson for his help in the technical aspects of the story.

Foreword

People often ask me how I evolved into such an anti-establishment character and I explain it