Long road to peaceWhen someone hears the word "hippie" they are very likely to think of the Forrest Gump scene or even the groupies who followed the Beatles hand and foot. Hippie culture is much more than that. Some aspects of this sub-rebel culture are the concept of free love – you know, that bumper sticker that says “make love, not war”? It would be a relic of the 60s-70s. The hippie lifestyle was disturbing to older generations and this created the phenomenon of the “generation gap” (Feinstein). Younger people, in their 20s and 30s, have begun to pursue the “counterculture” of using marijuana and LSD to free their minds and be closer to nature. Typically, traditional hippie clothing was torn blue, bell-bottom jeans, with tie-dyed shirts, long hair, and headbands. Communal living was a lesser-known part of the culture. Young hippies who wanted to “connect with nature” moved to rural communities where other hippies resided. They felt that this area would provide them with a more natural and peaceful lifestyle (Feinstein). What followed the seemingly small culture, was a...