[Snoopers-868th]

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.

[CremeSaver]

I'm with you. I remember the first time I heard of someone "smokin' grass." I couldn't imagine why anyone would want to smoke...um...grass. LOL!

[FlyVet]

I never heard about Woodstock until it was a documentary on T.V. and I was not sheltered.

Neither did I. Even though I'm classified a boomer, the Hippie movement was before my time. I did my share of partying, but I thought the Hippies were weird people.

[grellis]

I’m in mid-Michigan also. The only folks I know around here who come under the heading of “free love, flower children, commune living hippies that never outgrew that era” are the profs at MSU—and very, very few of them are from this area. There are plenty of GenXers and GenYers who would fit the bill, but very few Boomers.