Other Accounts, Histories and Various Renderings of Sixties Chronicles
There have been several students over the years who've made their way
to the Digger Collection and written accounts based on access to the
primary source materials. This section of the Digger Archive will serve to
collect and post the results of those who stumbled across the Diggers and
have written their interpretations and researches.
So far, we have:
Using Theatrical
Devices To Counter Culture, a partial history of the San Francisco
Diggers in the Heyday of Haight-Ashbury. By Marcus Del Greco.
"It's Free because It's Yours": The Diggers and the San Francisco
Scene, 1964–1968. By Dominick Cavallo. [Chapter Five from A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American
History, by Dominick Cavallo. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.]
Staging the Revolution: Guerrilla Theater as a
Countercultural Practice, 1965-1968 by Michael William Doyle. [First published in
Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s
and '70s, New York: Routledge, 2002]
Manhood in the Age of
Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 by
Tim Hodgdon. [Columbia University Press, 2008]. Three chapters with the
Diggers as central focus with bibliography and index.
The Final Word: Last Posts of
Steven Robert Boyd On The Digger Forum Guestbook, Feb.-Oct., 2004.
[With selected photos from Steve's scrapbook.]
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