| 30 Sept 2025 |
The Archivist's Blog has a new posting:
Support the Angels of Light Archive Project with a link to the
GoFundMe that has been set up to
digitize six newly uncovered films of the Angels from the 1970s. |
| 24 Aug 2025 |
A new section finished: The Digger Writings — a compendium of texts starting with the original Digger Papers from 1966. These and subsequent manifestoes, proclamations, essays, and street sheets were penned anonymously by the original two Diggers and by the core group that carried out collective actions over the next two years. After that, the Digger ideology had spread outward into the counterculture. Thus, to be more exact, the following are Digger Movement Writings.
Not everything ever written by participants in the Digger movement made it into this compendium. The following texts are included for their ability to give a sense of the breadth and depth of the Digger ideology.
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| 23 Aug 2025 |
A new Digger Paper was distributed on the Summer Solstice just past.
Common Sense 2025 is available on the
archivist's blog. |
| 21 Jul 2025 |
Created a new "Outline of this Web" listing of topics for the
Top Entrance to this site. |
| 11 Jul 2025 |
Inspired by the display of an original copy of Gerrard Winstanley's
Saints Paradise (1648) at the
*Our Commons are Free*
exposition at Fort Mason, San Francisco, I have completely redone the
page on the English Digger Writings, and
also touched up its parent page, The English
Diggers (1649-1650). |
| 25 Jun 2025 |
Added links to the
Bolton Diggers group and the Wigan Diggers Festival (held each year in honor
of Gerrard Winstanley) in Greater Manchester, England. |
| 11 Jun 2025 |
Announcement of the Our Commons Are Free project at Fort Mason, starting
June 21. |
| 27 Sep 2024 |
Added an
interview of Peter Berg by David Zane
Mairowitz from 2007 to the Oral History
collection. |
| 26 Sep 2024 |
Added a transcription of
Rob Young's eulogy at Peter Berg's memorial in 2011 to the
archvist's blog. |
| 11 Jun 2024 |
Discovered a photo in the
collection depicting a storefront wall in the Haight in 1968 with Digger and
Free City graffiti, including an
original 1% Free poster pasted up. Added this to the
Deciphering 1% Free page. |
| 9 Mar 2024 |
Added a new page with the interview
of Lenore Kandel that Alice and Céline
conducted in 1998. Many thanks to Jay
Babcock for his transcription and editing assistance. |
| 27 Jan 2024 |
Added a new page,
Deciphering 1% Free. |
| 21 Jan 2024 |
Added a new page with an interview
of Arthur Lisch. |
| 18 Dec 2023 |
Finished the new page for
the Illustrated & Annotated Catalog of the Free Print Shop. |
| 15 Dec 2023 |
Finished the new page for
the Free Print Shop publications. |
| 2 Dec 2023 |
Finished adding the new page for
the Free City miscellaneous street
sheets. |
| 1 Dec 2023 |
Finished redesigning the page with
the complete set of Free City News
sheets with 600-dpi resolution scans. |
| 23 Nov 2023 |
The Free City News section is being
updated with 600-dpi resolution scans. First done: the
Free City Set 1 and
Free City Set 2). |
| 26 Sept 2023 |
A new page for a history talk from
this past weekend: "Kaliflower & the Homosexual
Revolution of 1969." The gay liberation movement in San Francisco in
part was influenced by the Diggers and so the history of this cross-over
influence is long overdue for recognition. |
| 16 July 2023 |
It's always a shock to find pages
from the Digger web that have disappeared over the years. Today I found the
page devoted to Steve Boyd and put it back up.
For anyone who hasn't read
The Final
Word: Last Posts of Steven Robert Boyd on the Digger Forum Guestbook,
February—October, 2004 — you're in for a treat. |
| 6 June 2023 |
Wrote a
blog
posting about Fred Moore and his importance both for the story of Digger
Bread, and also his influence on the computer revolution with his 1974
manifesto "Put Your Trust in People, Not Money." |
| 11 May 2023 |
Added a reference to the Dutch
Provos (with a link to an excellent
archive) on the Links page under the
Anarchist Movement section. |
| 25 Apr 2023 |
Added a transcription of a 1973
interview with Linn House and Ivory Waterworth. Added the
last half of the 1982 interview with
Judy Goldhaft and Peter Berg. [Phew! 50 years in the making for the
former; 40 years in the making for the latter.] |
| 5 Apr 2023 |
Added a new section:
Digger Traces with links to other
historical sites that have archived the SF Diggers, including Jay Babcock's
Diggers Docs, LisaRuth Elliot and Chris Carlsson's Found SF archive, and
Chuck Gould's Digger Family Album. |
| 1 Mar 2023 |
Added a new section:
A Brief History of the San Francisco Diggers
(and the movement they spawned) with text and images. |
| 13 Feb 2023 |
Redesigned the
Early Digger Papers page and added a
long-missing one to the
sequence. Eventually this page will be part of a whole new section, Digger
Literature, that will present the rich and deep continuum of Digger tracts,
manifestos, announcements, and compilations. |
| 15 Sep 2022 |
Updated the
index of BATA videos to include a newly
digitized film clip from Dec. 2, 1966 of the first Digger Free Store on Page
Street and an interview (very rare indeed) of Billy Murcott. |
| 9 Sep 2022 |
Added an
index of videos from the Bay Area
Television Archive of TV news broadcasts that contain interviews of Diggers
(&c.) during the heyday of the Haight-Ashbury. |
| 1 Sep 2022 |
Finished the final (for now) Gedney
page: "Gedney
Gallery 5" (Notebooks and Writings). |
| 14 Aug 2022 |
Finished "Gedney
Gallery 4" (Be-In, Artists Liberation Front, Oracle offices, Mime
Troupe in the park). |
| 11 Aug 2022 |
Added a page for "Gedney
Gallery 3" (street scenes, Tracy's Donut Shop, Psychedelic Shop
"Love Book Bust" protest, Pemabo Peace Garden). |
| 10 Aug 2022 |
Added a page for "Gedney
Gallery 2" (inside a Digger pad, photos from Nov 1966). |
| 9 Aug 2022 |
Added a new page for "Gedney
Gallery 1" (early Digger photographs, Free Frame of Reference). |
| 5 Aug 2022 |
Updated the
Gedney Photography page with a new batch of
high-resolution photos that he shot of the early Digger Feeds in November
1966. |
| 4 May 2022 |
Filled out the
section that talks about
the collaboration between the Diggers and the Black Panthers with excerpts
from David Hilliard's autobiography that credit the Diggers for the
inspiration behind the Panthers' Free Food and Breakfast for Children
programs. |
| 11 Apr 2022 |
Added an article from 1967, "Hearts
Full for Black Free Store," to the
Black People's Free Store page. |
| 13 Jan 2022 |
Salvaged the
Chrono Notes page that had become orphaned
over the years. It now is back in its rightful place, under
History / Chronology. |
| 30 Dec 2021 |
Added a new page for the 1968
documentary film, Revolution. |
| 20 Jul 2021 |
Added photos of the Olompali Free
Bakery to
David Simpson's tale of its founding. |
| 17 Jun 2021 |
Fixed some typos and added an
introduction to Alex Forman's article: "San
Francisco style: the diggers and the love revolution" (Anarchy 77). |
| 6 Mar 2021 |
Ángel Martinez sent an
article he wrote about God's Eye Bakery, the
Digger free whole wheat bread baking operation at Resurrection City in
Washington, DC in 1968. Resurrection City was the final campaign organized
by Martin Luther King, Jr. before his assassination on April 4, 1968.
Ángel's account is an important historical contribution showing the
cross-over between disparate social movements. In this case, the impact of
the Digger vision of autonomous mutual support within an economic justice
movment. |
| 8 Feb 2021 |
Ronnie Davis resurrected two
interviews he conducted with the defendants in the trial of the Chicago 8 in
response to the Netflix release of The Trial of the Chicago Seven
written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. Ronnie wanted to correct the muted
impression that Sorkin left of the radical nature of the trial's defense in
its indictment of the US Government's genocidal wars in South-East Asia.
Ronnie offered to let the Digger Archives host these interviews and an
article he wrote to accompany them. The new page is under the
SF Mime Troupe section:
Conspiracy 8: R.G. Davis Interviews the Chicago
Seven. |
| 10 Dec 2020 |
On the advice of computer expert
David Parkhurst, I used DVDFab to convert the DVD of
NOWSREAL that Kelly Hart had sent me
which he suggested was a better transfer from the original 16-mm film. And
indeed it is. Check out the new video of
NOWSREAL the film. Thanks to Dave and Kelly. Pandemic times, useful
projects. |
| 9 Nov 2020 |
Added
David Simpson's "Remembrance
of Olompali" on the Digger Bread/Free Bakery
page. David was prompted to pen this
after I posted a copy of a
photo of a
Free Bread baking session at the Rancho Olompali commune from 1968. Any and
all memoirists should feel free to contribute likeminded accounts
herewith. |
| 3 Oct 2020 |
Added
a new page to help visitors NAVIGATE the Digger
Archives website. Thanks to Tree for mentioning this. It's been something
I've heard before. Hopefully the tips in this new page will help people
understand the underlying STRUCTURE of the web pages here and that will help
them navigate through the site. |
| 1 Oct 2020 |
Added
Herodotus to the
Praxis section of the
Hxstory page joining Thucydides and
Serendipity. |
| 28 Sep 2020 |
Added a new item to the
Selections from Kaliflower page: "Interrogation
of a Businessman by the Interior Police" which will be of special
interest to historians of the Beat Era. |
| 28 Sep 2020 |
Added a new section of the LINKS
page for Beat Foundations. Coming
soon: BIG REVEAL. The Beat foundations of the Digger movement. Also added:
Important Stuff to NOTE for
anyone who finds missing links on this page (and this site in general). |
| 8 Aug 2020 |
Added a "redirect" page for "Peking
On Acid" on the Angels of Light section.
For future reference, this is the HTML code for redirects: [ <meta
http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url='https://diggers.org/ic_free_carnival_1972.htm'"/>
] |
| 8 Aug 2020 |
Added a long-overdue link to the "Oral
History" page for
Jay
Babcock's Digger interviews on his "Diggers
Docs" blog. |
| 24 Jun 2020 |
A reader pointed out a broken link
on the Levellers: a chronology and
bibliography page and it turned out to be a page that never was put back
into the Frontpage Navigation structure. Fixed the broken link and the
navigation tree. |
| 10 Jun 2020 |
Fixed numerous transcription errors
in the manifesto Deep Tried Frees. |
| 29 Apr 2020 |
Added a
gallery of the restored
printouts that were printed and distributed at the
The Invisible Circus by the
John Dillinger Computer Instant
News Service. |
| 27 Apr 2020 |
Added a
slide show for a
presentation I gave in 2017 on the 50th Anniversary of
The Invisible Circus. |
| 9 Jan 2020 |
Began a
new section to tell the
story of the Cockettes (and updating the page for the Angels of Light Free
Theater commune). |
| 3 Oct 2019 |
Updated a page that was lost in one
of the server crashes years ago. Diggerly
Do: "Life Acting" and "Create the Condition You Describe" |
| 3 Jul 2019 |
Uploaded my new paper that
discusses "Overlooked
Sources" on the impact of the Sixties counterculture on world history. |
| 19 Jun 2019 |
Destiny Kinal has just contributed
nine cassette tapes containing interviews she conducted in the 1980s of
Digger women. I will be able to transfer these into digital audio files and
run them through Temi.com, the machine transcription service. But the one
thing I find most difficult with interviewing is close transcription. Are
there any volunteers for this worthy historical task? Please contact:
curator@diggers.org if you'd like
to help out. (The women interviewed included: Lenore Kandel, Jane Lapiner, Kathleen Nolan, Joanna Rinaldi, Eileen Ewing, and Marcia Thelin.)
And a BIG THANK YOU to Destiny! (Any and all archival contributions are most
welcome at the Digger Archives.) |
| 16 Apr 2019 |
And just like that, the universe
fills a void. Peter Coyote sent a collection of photos for a
new Digger Photo Gallery. |
| 13 Apr 2019 |
At Chuck Gould's request, we have
removed his photo galleries. Chuck will be sending updated info about future
access to his Digger Family photos. |
| 8 Apr 2019 |
With Joseph's help, finally got to
photograph the large Digger posters in the collection. First up, a new page
for the series of Planetedge Posters that were
produced in 1969. |
| 3 Apr 2019 |
Added two items to the
NOWSREAL page: a KPIX
news broadcast of the May 7 1968 Free City Rally on City Hall Steps at
which Ron Thelin was busted for wearing a mask; and, the
SF Chronicle front-page article about
same. |
| 18 Jan 2019 |
Thanks to my friend Frank, I
learned that a copy of Mother Earth News, vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan 1970) was
available on a local for-sale board and I added it to the collection for the
Digger Bread recipe
it contained. It is now part of the
Digger Bread & Free Bakery(ies) page. |
| 21 Dec 2018 |
Discovered a film review of
Berkeley in the Sixties that R. G. Davis wrote in 1990 and which was
published in Film Quarterly. With Ronnie's permission, I have posted
it on that page
here. |
| 6 Sep 2018 |
Kelly Hart has sent his written
recollection of the "genesis of Nowsreal,"
which is now included on the film's page.
Wonderful remembrance. |
| 14 July 2018 |
Henry
Rasof donated his collection of Communication Company &tc. sheets to the
Digger Archives. A special page acknowledges
and presents his collection. There is also an addendum with information on
The Orkustra, the band whose members included Henry,
and their connection to the Diggers. |
| 29 May 2018 |
Put the
Morningstar & Wheeler's Free Land pages
back into the navigation structure. They had dropped out when the site lost
its MS server extensions. Thanks to Ramon for the inspiration to fix this.
en |
| 9 Feb 2018 |
Fixed the
Digger Songs page. Sorry
about that. Both audio files were "autoplaying" on entry into the
English Digger section. Now, only the
Billy Bragg tune plays. Both songs have their audio controls adjacent to
each other, with links to the lyrics. |
| 25 Jan 2018 |
Thanks to Kelly Hart's suggestion,
the "Photo and Video" page now includes
videos. The listing of videos had ended up on the "Highlights"
page but now is duplicated here. |
| 11 Jan 2018 |
Finished updating the
Digger Bread (Free Bakeries) page with
lots more content, including photos and clippings. |
| 5 Jan 2018 |
Added an article from the Kansas
City underground paper The Screw about a
new Free Store (Aug 1 1969). |
| 4 Jan 2018 |
Added a
new page in the Free Store section: "Free
Store Ideology (as expounded by an itinerant visitor)" [reproducing a
1967 column by Jeff Berner] |
| 3 Jan 2018 |
Added a
video clip of an interview of
R. G. Davis in 1967 in which he discusses his "Guerrilla Theatre" essay. |
| 3 Jan 2018 |
Added a page for the
Black People's Free Store which
includes some of the best explanations of the free store concept ever
written. |
| 7 Dec 2017 |
Added the film
The Maze, a short (25
min) film produced by KPIX-TV in 1967 which features Michael McClure leading
a tour of the Haight-Ashbury (before the deluge). |
| 3 Aug 2017 |
Added an
English-language version
of "Les Diggers de San Francisco," the film by Céline Deransart and Alice
Gaillard. |
| 2 Aug 2017 |
Added captions (provided by R.G.
Davis) to the frame shots from the film "Have
You Heard of the San Francisco Mime Troupe?" |
| 29 July 2017 |
Added a gallery of frame shots from
the Digger/Free City film Nowsreal and
included an introduction. Also, the streaming video is now a higher
resolution (2k) video format. |
| 17 July 2017 |
Added a page in the history section
to highlight the SF Mime Troupe and the film
Have You Heard of the San Francisco Mime Troupe? which Ronnie Davis has
given permission for the Digger Archives to include here. |
| 13 July 2017 |
Added a page for the 1972
Inter-Communal Free Carnival. |
| 6 July 2017 |
Added a page about the
Free City Bank. |
| 26 Jun 2017 |
Added a page with the
Diggers video clip from the recent NBC
Bay Area documentary on the Summer of Love. |
| 14 Jun 2017 |
Updated the
Virtual Free Store database ASP/SQL
programming. |
| 13 Jun 2017 |
Updated the
Mutants Commune page to include heading levels on the text for enhanced
readability. |
| 18 Apr 2017 |
Posted one of the videos that Loren
Sears made available to the Digger Archives.
Pacific Lake is a
compilation of the video postcards produced by the Tribal Vision Network in
the early 1970s. |
| 4 Mar 2017 |
Corrected an overlooked lapse of
consciousness and restored the page for R.G. Davis' 1966 ground-breaking
article "Guerrilla Theatre" which
was a casualty of the website crash two years ago. |
| 16 Feb 2017 |
Created a new page for the 1990
film, Berkeley In The Sixties. |
| 14 Feb 2017 |
The Diggers published a "virtual street sheet"
on St. Valentine's Day (today) about the controversy involving the San
Francisco Recreation
& Park Commission's denial of Boots Hughston's request for a permit to
hold a Free Summer of Love 50th Anniversary event in Golden Gate Park.
Feel free to forward this new
Digger sheet to anyone who might be interested. |
| 16 Aug 2016 |
Added the
Loren Sears Gallery with two videos
that Loren produced: the Human Be-In video and
Tribal Home Video #2. |
| 16 Aug 2016 |
Edited and expanded the
Digger Free Store page, including announcing a
new project for the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. |
| 6 Aug 2016 |
Created a new top-level section,
Catalog, which has an interactive database that
(someday hopefully) will list the entire collection of the Digger Archives. |
| 5 Aug 2016 |
Updated the
Sixties Date Machine interactive events
database to include a search function. |
| 3 Aug 2016 |
Finished re-coding the interactive
bibliographic database of the Communication
Company. |
| 4 Jun 2016 |
Fixed the page, "Rap
on Free Store" which had some missing links. Anytime anyone sees missing
links or content,
contact me. |
| 7 Feb 2016 |
Added a new oral history page:
Kent Minnault and his
performance piece:
The Road of
Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom. |
| 7 Feb 2016 |
Resurrected the
Digger Oral History section with interviews
of Peter Coyote (by Etan
Ben-Ami) and Judy Goldhaft/Peter Berg
(by Marty Lee and Eric Noble). |
| 7 Feb 2016 |
Added a full-text, searchable PDF
of Ringolevio,
Section Three (the Digger story) to the Ring
page. Note: file size is 30 MB. |
| 1 Feb 2016 |
For anyone who wondered where the
Billy Bragg recording went, the
Digger Songs are now
complete with lyrics and MP3 recordings on the
English Diggers page. |
| 27 Jan 2016 |
Added the
Miriam Bobkoff Gallery of photographs of
the Scott Street Commune and Kaliflower Inter-Communal Network (1971-74). This is the fifth
collection in the Photo Galleries section. |
| 25 Jan 2016 |
Redesigned the
Once Here page. |
| 24 Jan 2016 |
New page:
In Memoriam: Peter Berg. Includes a link to the website for
Peter's memorial. Also
includes the video
Remembering Peter Berg by Lila Talcott Travis. |
| 22 Jan 2016 |
Working on restoring section by
section, and putting the new design format on all pages. Finished restoring
and updating The Digger Papers section. |
| 21 Jan 2016 |
The site redesign necessitated by
the server migration is moving forward. Anyone want to comment on the
redesign feel free: sfdigger at yahoo dot com. |
| 14 Jan 2016 |
The Digger web is back online but
undergoing recovery from the server upgrade. Certain systems are not
working. Attempting to do manual HTML for now. |
| 10 Dec 2015 |
The Digger web is going offline
with a server migration by the web provider. Will check back next month. |
| 7 Dec 2014 |
Started a new page for the
Angels of Light Free Theater Commune. |
| 1 Nov 2014 |
Finished the new
Free City Puppets page with original
photos from Chuck Gould and copies of Free City Puppets flyers, and
articles. |
| 1 Sep 2014 |
Finished the new
"Gene Anthony Gallery of Digger Photographs". |
| 30 Aug 2014 |
Ragga Muffin dropped off a new
Free City News item before heading back
out into the vortex. |
| 16 Aug 2014 |
With David Weissman's permission, I
clipped the "Communal Living" segment from The Cockettes film to
include in the "Inter-communal Free Network' section under the
Kaliflower page. |
| 14 Aug 2014 |
Under Other Histories, added
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today. |
| 13 Aug 2014 |
Put up a new page yesterday:
Nowsreal (long time comin'). |
| 11 Feb 2014 |
Scanned two more original English
Digger manifestos:
A Declaration from the Poor
Oppressed People of England [aka the Second Digger Manifesto] (June
1, 1649) [NOTE: 1.5 MB PDF file]; and,
A Watch-Word to the City of London, and the Armie (August 26,
1649) [NOTE: 3 MB PDF file]. Linked these original scans on the
page listing the chronology of Gerrard
Winstanley's writings. |
| 21 Dec 2013 |
Fixed the
Search page. Google had changed their Custom Search Engine code. Lots of
search pages aren't working anymore until the webmasters fix them. |
| 13 Dec 2013 |
Updated the
Digger Bread page with a brief history
of the six Free Bakeries that followed the first one on Waller Street in
1967. Also included a video of Jane and David retelling the story before a
large crowd in 2011. |
| 06 Dec 2013 |
Added a clip from David Weissman
and Bill Weber's beautiful film, The Cockettes, that depicts the
inter-communal Free network in
the early 1970s. |
| 18 Oct 2013 |
Created a "virtual gallery" of
Kaliflower cover pages
(volumes 1-4). If any enterprising historical researchers would like to help
out on this archival project, feel free to transcribe any of the covers that
contain editorial content, for example: "Ritual Magic" (vol. 3, no. 3);
"Learning the Lay of the Land" (vol. 3, no. 5); "Fucking Upward" (vol. 3,
no. 7); "Bags" (vol. 3, no 10). Just to name a few. |
| 28 Aug 2013 |
Scanned a "Digger Dollar" which is
posted on a page with my diatribe against
the inflationary spiral of prices for Digger ephemera. |
| 14 Aug 2013 |
Finished the last two monthly folders
in the Chester Anderson Papers collection at the Bancroft Library:
Chester Anderson Papers—Folder
6—May
1967 and
Chester Anderson Papers—Folder
7—July-Sept
1967 . The main index to the collection is on the
Communication Company
Archives page. This completes the virtual archive of the Bancroft
Library collection of Chester's papers, except for the folder labeled
"Invisible Circus." There are no scans (yet) of that folder. If anyone out
there would like to scan or photograph that folder, I would be delighted to
give you advice on approaching the Library. |
| 13 Aug 2013 |
Finished processing the next folder
of the Chester Anderson Papers collection at the Bancroft Library:
Chester Anderson Papers—Folder
5—May
1967. The main index to the collection is on the
Communication Company
Archives page. |
| 12 Aug 2013 |
Finished processing the next folder
of the Chester Anderson Papers collection at the Bancroft Library:
Chester Anderson Papers—Folder
4—April
1967. The main index to the collection is on the
Communication Company
Archives page. |
| 08 Aug 2013 |
Finished processing the next folder
of the Chester Anderson Papers collection at the Bancroft Library:
Chester Anderson Papers—Folder 3—March
1967. The main index to the collection is on the
Communication Company
Archives page. Thanks to L.B. for encouraging me to finish this project. |
| 29 Jul 2013 |
Added a new historical research
project to the archive: Outrageous Pamphleteers: A History Of The
Communication Company, 1966-1967 by Evan Edwin Carlson, San Jose
State University (2012). Here's an abstract,
and here's a
full-text PDF version. Also included a citation on the main
Communication Company page. |
| 30 Jan 2013 |
Added a
transcription of comments by Peter Coyote at a panel discussion on
Kerouac and the influence of the Beats that was held at the San Francisco
Public Library earlier this month. |
| 30 Jan 2013 |
Created a PDF document of the
English Diggers' first manifesto
The
True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649). |
| 22 Dec 2012 |
Scanned and created a PDF file of
one of Winstanley's first mystical revelations:
The Mysterie of God concerning the whole Creation, Mankind (1649)
[PDF = 57MB file size] |
| 15 Dec 2012 |
For my history paper and
presentation in the historical methods seminar, I scanned the Realist/Free
1968 edition of the Digger Papers and have created a high-res PDF version
available for download. The Digger
Papers 1968 (PDF format) is a 7MB file so beware for anyone on a slow
Internet connection. |
| 08 Dec 2012 |
Thanks to Miriam for noticing some
broken links on the English Diggers page.
Those are now fixed.
I also found (and have added to the site) a new secondary reference:
The Digger Movement in the Days
of the Commonwealth: (as revealed in the writings of Gerrard Winstanley,
the Digger mystic and rationalist, communist and social reformer) by Lewis
H. Berens (London, 1906, Project Gutenberg eBook)
And was inspired to start filling in the archive of
English Digger Writings (1649-1652). To that
end, the following original English Digger tracts have been added to those
already part of the timeline of Digger literature:
If any angel out there would care to convert the PDF files to OCR text
and then do a careful proofreading to make sure there are no mistakes,
please send me the resulting clean-text version. I will then create HTML
files instead of relying on the PDFs. |
| 04 Nov 2012 |
Announcing a new addition section
for the Chester Anderson Papers.
One of the co-founders of Communication Company (Com/Co), Chester was
sending copies of many Com/Co sheets to "his archivist" in 1967. Those
packets were deposited with Bancroft Library after Chester's demise in 1991.
In 1992, I created an item-by-item catalog of the collection—which catalog
languished while finishing my 25-to-life sentence in the workaday world.
Recently, an anonymous angel sent scans of the Bancroft set and the result
is (or is in the process of becoming) a virtual gallery of Chester's
collection of ComCo sheets that he chose to send to safe keeping. The
Bancroft set contains 400+ items so it's not a complete set. (See
previous discussion on estimates of total
Communication Company output.) But what's so interesting is that this
collection represents Chester's selection. So far, I have processed 100 of
the scanned images. Eventually the whole set will be available. I've been
hesitant to announce the opening of this new virtual gallery but several
itinerant readers have found it nevertheless. So, this will suffice as the
official announcement. |
| 22 Apr 2012 |
After many months of meticulous
work, Chuck Gould has just completed a massive scanning and sorting project
with the photographic images he took in 1967 and beyond. The result is the
new selection of 135 Digger
Family Photos that Chuck has (again) graciously allowed us to present in
the Gould Photo Gallery. |
| 13 Mar 2012 |
With inspiration from a media
wizard, I finally figured out how to convert video into web formats much
more successfully than previous experiments. Today, in honor of Celine
Deransart, Alice Gaillard, and Jean-Pierre Ziren, who produced their history
of Les Diggers de San Francisco in 1998, here is a
web video of the most recent version of
their film. |
| 11 Mar 2012 |
An anonymous angel sent me the 1972
episode of "To Tell The Truth" in which Kitty Carlisle and the other
panelists attempt to discern "the real Emmett Grogan."
Watch as the panel asks about free stores and
free theater, drugs, hippies and yippies. |
| 06 Mar 2012 |
In working with Chuck Gould to
expand the Gould Gallery of Digger photos, I
noticed that the "mouse-over text captions" of the photos that were put up
several years ago were no longer working. Strange, I remember coding those
in HTML. Turns out Internet Explorer will produce mouse-over captions if you
use the <alt=""> tag in HTML -- but NOT Firefox. In Firefox, you have to use
<title=""> tag. The six gallery pages are now fixed. (Check out
Gould Gallery #1 and put the mouse over one of
the photos.) Yay! |
| 06 Oct 2011 |
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 2011 |
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 2011 |
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 2010 |
Added a page -- after long last --
devoted to Steve Boyd and his final words. |
| 20 Jul 2010 |
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 2010 |
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 2010 |
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? |
| [Undated] |
Announcement of a film that
documents the micropower broadcasting movement. (Read new posting in Free
City News.) |
| 10 May 2007 |
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. On Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, 1PlanHost.com,
the web provider for the Digger Archives, after months of deteriorating
service, finally seems to have pulled the plug on their large customer base.
For two days, no one knew what was happening. There had been no announcement
from 1Plan. Web hosting review boards lit up with messages from disgruntled
customers (see sample links below.) Finally, many of us who had originally
come to 1Plan together (Planet Drum, Artemaya, Georoots, BearBytes) decided
to cut our losses and find new shores where we could anchor our webs.
Where are we at? The first thing on the agenda was to set up new channels of
communication for the ongoing conversations that were interrupted with
1Plan's departure. The first such was a new Guestbook, but after a couple
days, the spam got to be ridiculous. Just as we replaced the old guestbook
with the SnitzForum four years ago, we now have a spanking new Digger Forum:
Free Frame of Reference (discussion forum)
Come and join in the talk! See you around the corner.
If you would like to drop me a line, please send it to yellobug at pacbell
dot net. Check back soon! Eric |
| 25 Sept 2006 |
Allaying fears. Several people have
written me expressing concern about the content that was in the Digger
Archives site. (Several even mentioned they had been planning on using
specific documents for research soon.) Let me allay those fears.
Ever since learning how to create web sites, I have followed the philosophy
of having "shadow webs." These are duplicates of the live or production web
site. The shadow web is where all the development takes place. Rest assured
that the Digger Archive's shadow web is fine, and is backed up in numerous
locations.
So why don't I just republish the old site?
I think it has to do with always looking for something new to try out. The
new web host, Lunarpages.com, has numerous site tools, such as content
management systems. I really want to try out CMS with the Digger Archive. If
I just republish everything now, I know I will have less incentive to try
out something new.Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Feel free to
join in the discussion on the Digger Forum. |
| 20 Sept 2006 |
Julian left a note in the Guestbook
asking for the recovery of two of the Digger Papers, so I've imported from
the old site the full text, and specifically the two articles he requested:
Trip Without A Ticket
Post-Competitive, Comparative Game of Free City
These don't appear as "pretty" as they used to on the old site, because I
still have not re-created the site theme, but what's important are the
words, eh? |
| 20 Sept 2006 |
For anyone who wants a glimpse of
the havoc that 1PlanHost.com caused for all the 100s of customers whose
sites *poof* disappeared overnite earlier this week, here are some pages
that contain samples of the irate messages people are leaving all over the
'Net (some of the messages date from the earlier buyout of 1PlanHost by
WebHostPlus, which is when the problems began earlier this year):
http://www.geekcertified.com/display-94.html
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=505737
http://forums.hostsearch.com/showthread.php?t=1786
http://www.whplawsuit.com/ (These guys purport to be gathering potential
class-action lawsuit plaintiffs, but this is a minimalist site at best.) |
| 17 Feb 2005 |
Added the Google engine to the
Search page. Thanks to Leonard Raznick for suggesting this enhancement. |
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Gap of missing items
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| 3 May 2003 |
Replaced the Frontpage top
navigation bar on each page with a Xara-generated DHTML menu. Modified the
overall border design for simplicity. |
| 24 Jan 2003 |
Fixed the simple
Search
and the Advanced Search pages. |
| 5 Aug 2002 |
Created the first and second video
clips from Nowsreal on a new Free Poetry Forever
page under the Themes area. |
| 25 July 2002 |
Added a
video clip from the film Les Diggers de San Francisco with Peter
Berg discussing Digger Free. |
| 3 July 2002 |
Have begun creating an index of
Kaliflower Volume 3 with scans of cover pages and tables of contents for
each issue. |
| 16 Jun 2002 |
Added the transcription of a
draft letter from Peter Berg to an unnamed Underground Newspaper, ca.
1967, to the Digger Correspondence page. |
| 16 Jun 2002 |
Added the transcription of a
letter from Emmett Grogan to Peter Berg, ca. 29 April 1967, to the
Digger Correspondence page. |
| 16 Jun 2002 |
Added the transcription of a
letter from Kent to Emmett Grogan, ca. 1972, to the
Digger Correspondence page. |
| 27 May 2002 |
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. |
| 25 May 2002 |
Finished posting the
second set of Free City sheets from 1967. |
| 23 May 2002 |
Posted a new page with scans and
full text of the first
set of Free City sheets from 1967. |
| 17 May 2002 |
In Discussion Forum, messages
requested link to the "In the Clear" photo from Nov. 1966 with Emmett
flashing the 2-fingered salute that he claims led to the hippie peace sign.
I had not yet scanned this photo so these messages prompted me to do so:
Check out
this FFR msg for the scan. |
| 23 Jan 2002 |
Added a link to the
Bureau of Public Secrets. |
| 11 Jan 2002 |
Brought the web back online after a
week of downtime due to 1Plan's server
problems. |
| 7 Dec 2001 |
Added a link
to the Free Words project. |
| 3 Dec 2001 |
Notated the Sept. 30 1966 entry in
the Digger Chronology
to include research that proves the dating of one of the early Digger
broadsides. |
| 3 Dec 2001 |
Replaced the old scans of the
Early Digger Papers with new versions at higher resolution. |
| 2 Dec 2001 |
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. |
| 24 Nov 2001 |
Moved the
Hearthshire articles to the Archives section. |
| 23 Nov 2001 |
Moved the Thirtieth Anniversary of
the Human Be-In photo gallery back into the web. |
| 22 Nov 2001 |
Moved the
Blackbear Reunion 1987 article by Don Monkerud to the
Histories
section. |
| 17 Nov 2001 |
Added the
Catalog of Free Print Shop Publications (August 1968 to December 1972)
on the Kaliflower
page. |
| 13 Nov 2001 |
Updated the
Links to Digger Web page. |
| 22 Sep 2001 |
Created a new version of the
Free City News web to become an experiment in online participatory
journalism. |
| 25 Aug 2001 |
Added the
Black's Beach Diggers to the Links page under
Digger Dharma Today section. |
| 5 Aug 2001 |
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. |
| 17 Jun 2001 |
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. |
| 16 Jun 2001 |
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. |
| 25 Feb 2001 |
Created a page for Richard
Brautigan's Please Plant This Book. |
| 24 Feb 2001 |
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. |
| 10 Feb 2001 |
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. |
| 9 Feb 2001 |
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. |
| 6 Dec 2000 |
Added an
article by Kenneth Rexroth on the English
Diggers. |
| 21 Oct 2000 |
Added an article to the Archive
from 1967 that provides an intimate portrait of a
Free Store and the Digger philosophy. |
| 21 Jun 2000 |
Created a page for remembering
those you walked once here. |
| 28 May 2000 |
Added an article about the Diggers
by Christine Hall ("The Diggers Are Back"
from ESP Magazine, 5/17/2000). |
| 27 May 2000 |
Added the article that Patricia
Keats wrote about the Kaliflower collection
at the California Historical Society. |
| 25 Mar 2000 |
Rearranged the Morningstar section,
using the Digger web theme for Pam's
Chronicles pages. |
| 14 Mar 2000 |
Added the
Morningstar index page, with links to the articles and newsletters. |
| 26 Feb 2000 |
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.) |
| 3 Jan 2000 |
Added two more pages to the
Photo Gallery. |
| 27 Dec 1999 |
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. |
| 24 Dec 1999 |
Re-created the
(Early) Digger Papers page. |
| 19 Dec 1999 |
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). |
| 18 Dec 1999 |
Redesigned and added content to the
Free City News. |
| 8 Dec 1999 |
The
Communication Company database is ready. Search by
author
or list by title. |
| 5 Dec 1999 |
Put up the
third
and fourth pages of the
Photo Gallery. |
| 28 Nov 1999 |
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):
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Mar. 15, 1999. Stand Up,
Diggers All! Celebrate 350th anniversary of the original Digger planting on
St. George's Hill, starting April 1st, 1999. Read about it here. Feb.
15, 1999. Peter Berg is sending
dispatches from the Eco-Gathering in Ecuador that I've posted on the
Planet Drum website.
Sept. 20, 1998. Added an article to the Archives about the
1983 Digger Resonance.
June 15, 1998. Information about and directions to the upcoming
1998 Annual Rainbow Gathering in the Apache National Forest in
Arizona.Welcome Home!
May 24, 1998. Tom Lance sent a scanned page from the Morningstar
Scrapbook showing an aerial photo of Morningstar Ranch. I put it on the main
contents page for
Morningstar &tc.
Scanned a photo of the Kaliflower Board which I took at the California
Historical Society. The scan appears on the main contents page for
Kalflower &tc.
May 19, 1998. Figured out how to put audio recordings on the web
site after Celine and Alice, the two French women who are in town working on
their Digger documentary, asked about the
Digger Song. Also moved the video clip and Emmett's rap to a new
Recordings page from the Welcome page (should make loading the home page
faster.)
Tom Lance answered my query about Jane Quattlander, with a phone number,
and on a most auspicious day. Happy Birthday, Jessica! Thanks, Tom.
April 30, 1998. Added a new discussion forum,
Amazing Digger Tales, to the Free Frame of Reference, in part due to a
request from Arthur Lisch.
April 21, 1998. Added the Morning Star graphic and Manifesto Two
cover scan to the
Morningstar ... Free Land page.
April 19, 1998. Pam Hanna (Read) has contributed two chapters from
Infinite Points of Time: Morningstar Chronicles, another perspective on
the
Free Land movement. Pam: if you read this, I'm anxiously awaiting the
next chapter. Blessings.
April 4, 1998. Ramón Sender Barayon
sent the final chapters (16–25) of
Home Free Home (the story of Morningstar and the Open Land Movement),
and with some gentle prodding, I finally got to putting them up. Read and
enjoy!
March 4, 1998. Created a link for the North Beach Beats to Levi
Asher's
www.charm.net/~brooklyn site.
March 3, 1998. Added links to Anarchy Online in the
Today page.
February 27, 1998. Added a link to the
Black Panther Party web site under the
Sixties page (and included a pertinent passage from David Hilliard's
autobiography that illuminates Emmett's relations with the Panthers.)
February 16, 1998. Put together an idea that's recurred ever since
I wrote about "create the condition" and this Web. Announcing the
Digger Virtual Free Store.
January 30, 1998. Finished transcribing
Mutants Commune. Next up: scan the original appearance of this most
remarkable essay on Free from the Berkeley Barb.
January 25, 1998. Figured out how to get streaming audio on these
pages. First audio clip for the Archive:
Emmett's rap on Free City from the Nowsreal film. All attempts at
transcribing the hard-to-understand clip will be much appreciated. I'll post
all submissions.
January 11, 1998. Added a page on
Olompali Ranch and the Free Oven.
December 7, 1997. Finished the transcription of, and re-scanned
all, pages of
The Digger Papers (August 1968). Hope people like the new design.
November 4, 1997. Re-designed the
Free City News page.
October 29, 1997. All Ringolevio pages now have their page number
in the document title. Therefore, a
search of Ringolevio will return the page number in the hypertext link.
This should be very useful for researchers.
October 27, 1997. Tom sent a couple photos from the
Morningstar gathering at the Gathering.
October 27, 1997. Some news about Radio Free San Francisco on the
Free City News page.
October 20, 1997. My photo essay on the
30th Anniversary of the Human Be-In/Summer of Love is online.
October 19, 1997. Transcribed Peter Berg's
remarks at the SOL 30th Celebration. Have been working on redesigning
the ComCo pages to make it easier to pull up individual sheets. Note: some
people have been having trouble accessing Peter Coyote's chapters. Please
use the main digger archive page to get to the Free Fall Chronicles section.
Perhaps someone has an out-of-date URL. Everything is working on this end.
September 9, 1997. Published an article by Peter Berg about the
Turtle Island Bioregional Gathering held last year in Mexico.
August 15, 1997. Created an experimental FrontPage 97
search page for this site.
July 23, 1997. My
digger/comco database is online (experimental interface using ODBC and
Microsoft Access.)
June 21, 1997. Pages 209-498 of Ringolevio are now
searchable.
June 17, 1997. Uploaded chapters 8 to 15 of
Home Free Home which Ramon had finished laboriously converting to Web
documents. Check out these next installments of the wild story of
Morningstar and Wheeler's Ranch.
June 16, 1997. Uploaded a new
Oral History page, with Etan Ben-Ami's first interview of
Peter Coyote.
June 7, 1997 I'm putting up the newly designed Digger Archive web
site, having spent the past two months working on various different ideas.
Hope this works! The new address for the Web site is
www.diggers.org.
January 3, 1997 Welcome to a new year (although for many of us the
new year started two weeks ago at the Solstice!) Ramon sent the next four
chapters to
Home Free Home (sorry it took a few weeks to get these up, Ramon)
including one of the funniest truest accounts of Acid that I've read (Slim's
First Acid Trip...)
I also learned (finally!) how to scan large posters (in several passes
which are then pasted together.) Check out the
Invisible Circus poster, the
Psychedelic Shop poster, the
What Was That poster, the Artists Liberation Front
Free Fair poster, and the
Summer Solstice '68 poster.
December 1, 1996 Added a page for the
Invisible Circus.
November 8, 1996 The first three chapters of
Home Free Home, a salutary history of Morningstar and Wheeler's Ranches,
are ready.
October 27, 1996 Ramon Sender converted the
July, 1996 issue of The Most (Morningstar) Newsletter and uploaded it.
This issue is a memorial to Lou Gottlieb.
October 18, 1996 Finally brought myself to put up the
Artists Liberation Front article, half-done as it is (and will be for
many moons.)
October 18, 1996. Here's the oldest archived version of Yahoo!
(when it was a "searchable, browsable hierarchical index of the Internet")
and its listing of historical 1960s websites in 1996. Note the location of
the Digger Archives (when it was hosted by Webcom).
Click on image for larger version. [From
Wayback machine.]
September 29, 1996 Breaking news about the
Jefferson Stone Action upcoming Oct 6 1996 on the Washington Mall.
September 27, 1996 Another of Coyote's chapters is ready.
Approaching Terminal Velocity tells the story of the digger caravan
'cross country in 1971.
September 3, 1996 Don Monkerud sent his report of the
1987 Black Bear Reunion with photographs.
August 2, 1996 Emilia sent two reports (by Claude and Jasmine) of
the
Hearth School (Hearthshire) 25th anniversary at the land June 21-23,
1996.
July 28, 1996 Finally got around to putting up the first attempt
at a
Links page with listings of other Diggers (and related) Resources
(libraries/archives/sites, etc.)
July 15, 1996
Lou Gottlieb passed away this past Thursday (7/11/96). Ramon Sender has
sent a notice with information about Lou's life, and the memorial
get-together (Sunday, July 28.)
July 1, 1996 Peter Coyote uploaded a new chapter:
Carla's Story.
June 8, 1996 Another chapter is ready from Coyote's
work-in-progress. This is
Elsa's Story about one of the Diggers whose life intersected many of the
events that defined that period.
May 19, 1996 In response to a query from Ramon Sender, I
transcribed the recipe for
Digger Bread and wrote a little about its history.
May 17, 1996 Coyote sent another chapter:
Crossing the Free Frame of Reference, which is about one of the Diggers'
favorite games.
May 10, 1996 Added a
feedback form to send email to Peter Coyote about his work-in-progress.
April 18, 1996 Coyote sent up another chapter from Free-Fall
Chronicles.
Ron Thelin and the Red House is a memoir of one of the more famous
Digger collective houses.
April 17, 1996 Added Peter Coyote's chapter,
Playing for Keeps, about Emmett Grogan from his new book, the Free-Fall
Chronicles.
April 16, 1996 Put up photos and handouts from
Ron Thelin's Memorial held this past Sunday.
March 29, 1996 Set up the new WebComBBS scripts to implement an
online, interactive Digger BBS:
Free Frame of Reference.
March 23, 1996 Changed the
Digger Papers (free and Realist editions) pages. Adopted the index
format that I used for Communication Company.
March 3, 1996 Put up the
Communal Archaelogy issue of
Kaliflower.
February 24, 1996 Added a page about
Kaliflower and the Free Print Shop to the
Digger Archives. Transcribed the KF publication,
Deep Tried Frees, which offers an excellent view of the Digger
ideal.
February 8, 1996 Participated in the 48-hour protest of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996. Read about this
fascist attempt to destroy the Bill of Rights.
December 8, 1995 Many thanks to all who've written with feedback
on the Digger Archives. Currently, I'm finishing an article that I'll post
when it's done -- eric.
October 1, 1995 We've moved the Arte Maya Tz'utuhil Gallery to a
new site (to keep our Free and Commercial offerings separate). Come visit
the new site:
http://www.artemaya.com/.
June 21, 1995 Solstice Gathering! Today! NOW! (For Diggers
everywhere.)
Mayo 28, 1995 Ahora, tenemos las paginas,
Galería de Artistas en Español.
May 25, 1995 Added two more Diggers articles from 1966, these
about the Intersection game on Halloween that ended with the cops busting
five of the participants, which ended with the famous photo on the steps of
the San Francisco Jail.
May 22, 1995 Put up two early Barb articles by the Diggers, very
important formulations of the Digger philosophy: "The
Ideology of Failure" and "In
Search of a Frame."
May 21, 1995 Added the lyrics to the
Digger folk songs on the English Diggers page (thanks to
Miriam Bobkoff for the suggestion.) Joe added three new paintings to the
Arte Maya Gallery.
May 20, 1995 Finished transcription of the first Earth/Life
Defense Commune manifesto. Transcribed the earliest Berkeley Barb articles
about the Diggers beginnings.
May 19, 1995 Added a page for
Articles By and About the Diggers.. Many thanks to Sarah Phillips for
her encouragement and interest in seeing this feature.
May 18, 1995 Added the Living Here: Outer Space Views page. [Not
available as of 1/98.]
April 30, 1995 Put up the
Earth/Life Defense Commune page with the first of three broadsides they
published from 1970-72.
Easter, 1995 Added a new painting of Lorenzo González Chavajay to
the
Exhibition of New Paintings. Joe also edited the Arte Maya pages.
Mar. 17, 1995 Added the
Early Digger Papers. I believe this is the first compilation and
publication of these early manifestos of the Digger movement. More to
come... And, oh thanks to all who've signed the
Guestbook and left encouraging comments. It really inspires me to
continue this work!
Mar. 16, 1995 Added the
Text Search form on the home page. This should be especially useful for
users of the Digger Archives for doing a full-text search of the broadsides.
Eventually plan to have separate search forms for each of the local
projects (Diggers, Arte Maya). Also will implement full search page for
user-modified default search values.
Mar. 4, 1995 Added a new Arte Maya Gallery page:
Exhibition of New Paintings to display some very beautiful new works
from Guatemala!
Mar. 3, 1995 Put up
The Trips Festival page with the Program notes full text, and a scan of
the rare Merry Pranksters' "ACID TEST" card.
Feb. 24, 1995 Began scanning the first
Communication Company broadsides, with full text online. These comprise
the first of hundreds of manifestos published by the Diggers in 1967.
Feb. 5, 1995 Added a link to the Encyclopedia Brittanica article
on the
English Diggers of the 1640s.
January 28, 1995 Joseph Johnston re-designed the
Arte Maya Tz'utuhil Gallery pages. Check 'em out!
January 21, 1995 Designed and tested the Pick-A-Page Picklist on
the top page.
January 17, 1995 Changed the table of contents for the
Diggers outline.
January 15/16, 1995 Added all page scans for
Free City Collection #1. Re-designed home page.
January 1, 1995 Writing the history of the Artists Liberation
Front (will have first part soon.)
December 25, 1994 First of the Free City Collection scanned.
October 15, 1994 Added more articles from The Digger Papers.
October 1, 1994 Added the CUI Catalog submit form. Added the
pointers to the online reference works.
September 24, 1994 Added the Trip Without A Ticket to the Diggers
page.
June, 1993.
Tim Berners-Lee
had invented a new Internet technology
(which he called "the
World Wide Web
project") in 1989. He then introduced the first version of HTML
(hypertext markup language) in 1993, and at the 1993 CALI Conference in Chicago,
Thomas Bruce
demonstrated
Cello, the first graphical web browser.
Upon returning from the conference (which I had attended as a law school
staff person), I began
to teach myself HTML and set out to create a web presence for the
Digger Archives.
Here is a graphic showing the total number of WWW sites in those early
years.
Click on image for larger version. Source:
Internet Live Stats
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