Four.
When (way back) I was in high school, my family moved from Conservativesville in the American heartland to the left-fringe coastal region I was shocked not only at what my generation there were doing, but at the previous generation encouraging them on. Our teachers, our church ministers and other leaders...
Some of our generation didn't have much of a chance against all that.
I am in middle Michigan. Born, raised and never moved away. The drug scene and the hippy scene never hit our area in any big way and when it did it I really don’t know how it presented itself. When I graduated I had never heard of marijuana and it was many years after before I did hear of it and certainly did not know where I could get it. This would have been too scarey for most in my time. What these generations think took place did not take place across this country. It took place in big cities not little bergs.
I resent the implication that baby boomers are the free love, flower children, commune living hippies that never outgrew that era. The majority of us DID NOT take part in what the documentaries depict. I never heard about Woodstock until it was a documentary on T.V. and I was not sheltered. It wasn’t something that was in our area—plain and simple. Getting drunk was a big deal in my time. I have no idea what was going on in Detroit or the resort towns. I was small town but this small town is no longer innocent and it was not my generation that brought in the evils.