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Quillen’s Corner – The Great Wyoming Hippie Hoax Revisited

by Martha Quillen Two score and six years ago, Ed Quillen and some of his friends started musing about whether Wyoming could be taken over by hippies (in a nonviolent manner, of course). It was a crazy idea, but the events unfolding in 1969 almost made it seem feasible. Student riots, sit-ins, and demonstrations rocked the nation. The Black Panthers, LaRaza, National Organization of Women, American Indian Movement, Students for a Democratic Society and Gay Liberation Front were on the rise. In October, reformers called for a Moratorium on the Vietnam War, and on Nov.15, that event culminated with 250,000 ...

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