by Miriam Kasin | Aug 15, 2023 | blog
BOB DYLAN San Francisco in 1965 was the best place in the world to be. Anything was possible. —Hunter S. ThompsonI was fourteen years old and had a head full of ideas that was driving me insane. Right now the main one was a question: Why was Bob Dylan sprawled across... by Miriam Kasin | May 8, 2023 | blog
CHRIS STRACHWITZ Sept. 26, 2020 by phonePART 1: (Edited by Chris Strachwitz on October 4, 2020 page 1All right, well let’s start with Bob Geddins. He was a wonderful guy from Texas, a black man, who had this wonderful easy going talk about [imitates slow Texas drawl]... by Miriam Kasin | Sep 9, 2019 | blog
We all know that civilization ends at the Berkeley city limits. —Berkeley Barb, 1962 Ci-gareets, whiskey and wild, wild women! That was my father, singing at the top of his lungs as he knotted his tie and got ready to go to work. With a final salute to the wages of... 
by Miriam Kasin | Jun 14, 2017 | blog
In 1967 I was miserable at Berkeley High School. I was a tiny cog in a wheel containing over 3,000 students. The wheel was crushing me. Racial tensions were palpable and uncomfortable. Cliques were exclusive little clubs and I felt like I didn’t belong in any of them.... 
by Miriam Kasin | Jul 23, 2016 | blog
The Bay Area had several notable newspapers that thrived during the Sixties, offering an alternative to the standard-issue local rags. They reflected the opinions and perspectives of the counterculture. The Berkeley Barb was founded in 1965 by Max Scherr, the owner of... 
by Miriam Kasin | Jul 10, 2016 | blog
People’s Park was a precarious battle waiting to happen. The air was already charged with visceral tension. On the government’s side, there was a desire to pull the plug on the Vietnam War protestors and politically radical groups. On the activist public’s side, there...
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