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© Anachron Foundation. Page compiled by Henry W.Targowski
ISBN 0-586-04001-3 (UK pbk)
non-fiction, autobiography, diggers, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco Mime Troupe, anarchy, drugs, psychedelics, counterculture, edge, social history, california, 1960s
The copyright is credited to Eugene Leo Michael Emmett Grogan (although 'Emmett Grogan' is a pseudonym). Grogan was one of the original 5 San Francisco diggers -- together with: Peter Berg, Peter "Coyote", Robert Lamorticella ("La Mortadella" in the book), and David Cohen.
"He was the Best Ringolevio player in Brooklyn when he started shooting heroin and pulling outrageous heists to support his habit.
"Then he went to an ultra-Establishment prep school in Manhattan and brought off a string of daring jewel robberies that completely baffled New York's finest. When things got too hot in New York, he took off for Italy and joined forces with the slickest hucksters in the Eternal City.
"In London he wrote hot-selling pornography in Soho, and took time out in Dublin for a little IRA work.
"He ended up in San Francisco at the height of the Haight-Ashbury flower-power hippiedom where he took up the life-style that was to make him a legend." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1974]
"There's a lot more to be told someday. If you think this book is stretching the truth a little, wait till you hear the rest...
"For instance, there's the time Emmett went on a personal survivalist experiment in a national park... He'd taken the bare essentials -- bedroll, the means to make fire, and the means to get food -- and managed to elude the pursuit mounted by the police who were using helicopters and ground-based search parties.
"Then, after a few weeks of playing this cat-and-mouse game, Grogan shows up in San Francisco, a fugitive, and makes an appearance in the midst of television reporters and the local police department, says his bit to the press and then disappears into the crowd before the police can get to him.
"One of Emmett Grogan's typical quips was: 'There is no Emmett Grogan'." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
Highly recommended.
(read the book!)
Anarchy
(Anachron Library glossary entry... definition, plus links)
The Digger Archives
(1% FREE... history of the San Francisco Diggers, 1966-1968, maintained by Eric Noble... Peter Coyote chapters from Free-Fall Chronicles ... San Francisco Mime Troupe, Haight Ashbury, Acid Tests, etc...
these guys were great, do check this site out)
Haight-Ashbury -- Additional Notes on the S.F.Oracle by Allen Cohen
(notes accompanying the CD-ROM Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties...
contact: The San Francisco Oracle, 2548 Myra Dell, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA... tel.: 510-935 6492...
this is a bit of very important social history, so do check it out)
"Marijuana: Misunderstood Plant of the Century" by Lucy Moon
(a very good summary article available in Lumpen 24... uncertain if this article is only temporary or not)
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