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...cops are playing tennis with us," said Mel, who wore blue striped bell-bottoms with a smiling yellow button in his navel. "They kick us out of the Common. They kicked us out of the Gardens. Where do they want...
...year-old boys who had just hitchhiked in from Ohio had no place to go at all. They asked Mel for 20 cents to take the MBTA to Central Square and look there. "We don't know what we're doing here," said the smaller one. "We really wanted to go to California." He added that they planned to start earning money right away. "There's never too many people dealing in dope...
...Hill community is seven or eight Victorian, shabby buildings in Roxbury, across from a Revolutionary war monument, "our monolithic symbol." It is made up of about 150 people, "all living in all the houses at once." The community, Liz said, which includes Jim Kweskin of the jug band and Mel Lyman, who considers himself to be a second Jesus Christ, is connected with United Illuminating, which, besides Avatar, makes films, cuts records, and runs building projects in the South...
Avatar, a hippie-oriented newspaper based on a belief in Mel Lyman and in astrology, was founded in June 1967. "We were appealing to the people who could listen at the time," Liz said, 'the drug people. Now we appeal to everybody; businessmen, church people...
...conversation with Liz confirms the idea that there is fairly strong class consciousness among the hippies. Summer hippies talk only with the Charles Street regulars, the regulars talk only to Fort Hill people, and the Fort Hill people talk only to Mel Lyman...