This is the copy Chester Anderson sent his archivist. The word "digger" in the text of the broadside has an asterisk. The handwritten note:
*the diggers are a non-organization of radical hippies. They believe & practice freedom — which includes feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, befriending the stranger, &c &c, all for free, that being their thing. I'll send you an essay on the conservative & radical factions that explains it all. The diggers have Dropped Out. Abandoned the establishment & especially its values. Very radical, very active, very political. I'm one. |