描述
Changing Times
- In wake of WWII and Korea, suburbanization, industry, interstate highways, expanding air travel ... Americans began to question their government
- A movement that grew out of Berkley, CA ... reached coast to coast
- Impacted culture from music to movies
Summer of Love
- In 1967 100,000 young people descended to San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury
- Psychedelic drug use was common including LSD, with Timothy Leary (LSD proponent) coining "turn on, tune in, drop out" earlier in year
- Who's who of musicians played
Ohio
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young canonized the tragedy at Kent State May 4, 1970 in their protest song "Ohio"
- Flower Power and the broader anit Vietnam War Movement
- Faced off students with flowers against military police & national guard
- A powerful juxtaposition
Today's Everyday
- Animation portrays order to disorder
- Reserved to flamboyant
- Monotone to colorful
- Film Pleasantville (1998) inspired the concept ... a 1950s town going from Black & White to Color
