What's New at the Digger Archives

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10 May 07 Successfully migrated to the new Lunarpages Windows account. All ASP pages seem to be working including 60s Date Engine, Digger Chronology, Virtual Free Store, BibCit, Communication Company Bibliography, etc.

Also, all menus seem to be working, although it's taking quite awhile to go through and double check.

 

   
   
 

Most recent changes:

Edited the AVI version of Nowsreal and added the first and second video clips from Nowsreal on a new Free Poetry Forever page under the Themes area.
Added a video clip from the film Les Diggers de San Francisco with Peter Berg discussing Digger Free.
Created an index of Kaliflower Volume 3 with scans of cover pages and tables of contents for each issue.
Added the transcription of a draft letter from Peter Berg to an unnamed Underground Newspaper, ca. 1967, to the Digger Correspondence page.
Added the transcription of a letter from Emmett Grogan to Peter Berg, ca. 29 April 1967, to the Digger Correspondence page.
Added the transcription of a letter from Kent to Emmett Grogan, ca. 1972, to the Digger Correspondence page.
Added a new "Themes" page which contains an audio clip of Emmett rapping on Free City, and a video clip of the Free Noon Forever event on City Hall steps in 1968.
Finished posting the second set of Free City sheets from 1967.
Posted a new page with scans and full text of the first set of Free City sheets from 1967.
Scanned the "In the Clear" photo from Nov. 1966 with Emmett flashing the 2-fingered salute that he claims led to the hippie peace sign.

17 Feb 05
Added the Google engine to the Search page. Thanks to Leonard Raznick for suggesting this enhancement.
 

Check out this FFR msg for the scan.
Added a link to the Bureau of Public Secrets.
 
Added a link to the Free Words project.
Notated the Sept. 30 1966 entry in the Digger Chronology to include research that proves the dating of one of the early Digger broadsides.
Replaced the old scans of the Early Digger Papers with new versions at higher resolution.
Published Staging the Revolution: Guerrilla Theater as a Countercultural Practice, 1965-1968 by Michael William Doyle. An important contribution to the history of the Diggers.
Moved the Hearthshire articles to the Archives section.
Moved the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Human Be-In photo gallery back into the web.
Moved the Blackbear Reunion 1987 article by Don Monkerud to the Histories section.
Added the Catalog of Free Print Shop Publications (August 1968 to December 1972) on the Kaliflower page.
Updated the Links to Digger Web page.
Created a new version of the Free City News web to become an experiment in online participatory journalism.
Added the Black's Beach Diggers to the Links page under Digger Dharma Today section.
Finished redesigning The 60s Date Machine, with a new format for events listings, with a separate page for the Digger Chronology, and several ways to access the event database, including: All Events Listing, Text Search, Keywords Listing, Dates Listing, Date Range form, Events Drop-down List.
Published "Diggers: An American Alternative Movement Thirty Years Later", a series of articles by Édouard Waintrop (with permission to republish here) which originally appeared in Liberation newspaper, Paris, France, December 2000.
Published the article "It's Free because It's Yours": The Diggers and the San Francisco Scene, 1964–1968, from the book A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History, by Dominick Cavallo. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.)
Professor Cavallo has graciously given permission to reproduce this ground-breaking, first-published scholarly history of the Diggers, whom he clearly sees as fundamental to understanding the Sixties, especially the formation of the Counterculture. It is gratifying that we can include this important piece in the Archives.
Created a page for Richard Brautigan's Please Plant This Book.
Re-did the Early Digger Papers page to include the full text with the index of titles, and re-scanned the images. Hopefully this will make it easier to read these pieces. Readers should feel free to make suggestions for improving the web's design.
Added a new section for the Ringolevio pages from p. 209 to 498. Each page has a navigation bar to move easily from from previous to next  page.
Added a more full featured search page to the web using the Atomz engine. Try it, you'll like it. Getting back to the functionality that we had with the Glimpse search engine. 
Added an article by Kenneth Rexroth on the English Diggers.
Added an article to the Archive from 1967 that provides an intimate portrait of a Free Store and the Digger philosophy.
Created a page for remembering those you walked once here.
Added an article about the Diggers by Christine Hall ("The Diggers Are Back" from ESP Magazine, 5/17/2000).
Added the article that Patricia Keats wrote about the Kaliflower collection at the California Historical Society.
Rearranged the Morningstar section, using the Digger web theme for Pam's Chronicles pages.
Added the Morningstar index page, with links to the articles and newsletters.
Radio Free Berkeley is helping to coordinate an alternative media center, and offering workshops for media activists. Announcement of a film that documents the micropower broadcasting movement. (Read new posting in Free City News.)
Added two more pages to the Photo Gallery.
Added the essay, Using Theatrical Devices To Counter Culture (A Partial History of the San Francisco Diggers in the Heyday of Haight-Ashbury) by Marcus Del Greco to the History section.
Re-created the (Early) Digger Papers page.
Asked FPToday to point all HTTP 404 errors to a customized "not found" page (which also happens to contain an imaginary photo of the webmaster). 
Redesigned and added content to the Free City News.
The Communication Company database is ready. Search by author or list by title.
Put up the third and fourth pages of the Photo Gallery.
Much of the web site is back in operation after the fourth major redesign in five years. I discovered that Webcom, my web space provider for the past five years, just doesn't work for publishing the MS Frontpage 2000 web pages. So I've switched to using FP Today, another provider that had been hosting my BearBytes domain. This also has the advantage of allowing me to put up database access on the web (yeah!)
Still a lot left to do, but the following is complete (or nearly so):
The new Discussion Web
The new Photo Gallery
The new "dynamic content" Free Store
The new Date Machine (Chronology)
Free Fall Chronicles
Home Free Home
Digger Papers 1968
Kaliflower/Deep Tried Frees
The new Collapsible Site Map
Etc.

 

 

 

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