What's New at the Digger Archives
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Please check in on the
Discussion Forum for daily additions to the message
base. New additions to the Archives will be noted when major changes are
made. |
| 06 Oct 11 |
There are extra copies of the "byte
size books" reissue of Trip Without A Ticket
that we distributed at the Celebration of Life for Peter Berg on Oct. 1,
2011 at the Josephine Randall Museum in San Francisco. We will send one each
while copies remain. If interested, please send an
email. |
| 04 Oct 11 |
I mentioned this in the Digger
Forum but forgot to link it here on the what's new page. Jordan Zinovich
asked for the Digger Guestbook archives which I sent him. After applying his
superb editing skills, Jordan sent back to the Digger Archives a special
gift of light:
Digger
Guestbook Redux (1995 to 2004). (PDF format, 800k) |
| 22 Sep 11 |
Added a transcription of an article
from the LA Free Press, March 31, 1967:
San Francisco Faces
the Hippies: Communication Co., Diggers Organize. |
| 22 Jul 10 |
Added a page -- after long last --
devoted to Steve Boyd and his final words. |
| 20 Jul 10 |
Added the
Podcasts & Vodcasts page into
the site navigation under Themes.
Two videos introduce the San
Francisco History Center and the
Underground Press Collection.
Also two audio broadcasts: the
Digger Free Store and
Capture of Yerba Buena. |
| 07 Jul 10 |
Posted several chapters and
sections from Tim Hodgdon's gender analysis of the counterculture,
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity
in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 [Columbia University
Press, 2008]. The first three chapters are a new interpretation of the
Diggers. |
| 05 Jul 10 |
Have fixed the navigation and ASP
pages after a major crash of the FP server extensions. The site is up and
working again. Have loads of materials to add. The online archives
represents about 5% of the materials archive. Any budding archivists out
there? |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Finished posting
the second set of Free City sheets from 1967. |
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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.
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Check out this
FFR msg for the scan. |
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Added a link to the Bureau
of Public Secrets. |
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| Added a link to the Free Words project. |
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Notated the Sept. 30
1966 entry in the Digger Chronology to include research that proves the
dating of one of the early Digger broadsides. |
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Replaced the old scans of
the Early Digger Papers with new versions at higher resolution. |
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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. |
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Moved the Hearthshire
articles to the Archives section. |
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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. |
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Updated the Links to Digger Web page. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Added an article to the
Archive from 1967 that provides an intimate portrait of a Free Store and the
Digger philosophy. |
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Created a page for
remembering those you walked once here. |
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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. |
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Rearranged the
Morningstar section, using the Digger web theme for Pam's Chronicles pages. |
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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.) |
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Added two more pages
to the Photo Gallery. |
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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. |
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Re-created the
(Early) Digger Papers page. |
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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). |
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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!) |
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The new Discussion Web |
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The new Photo Gallery |
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The new "dynamic
content" Free Store |
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The new Date Machine
(Chronology) |
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Free Fall
Chronicles |
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Home Free Home |
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Digger Papers 1968 |
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Kaliflower/Deep Tried
Frees |
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The new Collapsible Site
Map |
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