Alternative lifestyle
posted by Alp at Sunday, May 21, 2006
21 May 2006
About this
Something unusual was happening in SW Wales when I was a child – subcultures, social experiments, naked hippies dancing around maypoles. I'm researching a PhD project into remembrances of things past - how our sense of the past informs our sense of self. This enquiry presumes that the past is not fixed, rather it is partly constructed through a shared or collective consciousness, which is why I’m inviting you now to share your memories of certain events, moments, and ideas. A childhood in Wales gave a lot of us a unique experience and a lot of the ‘hippy’ kids, I think, have a wonderfully insightful way of perceiving and interacting with the world. But we also have a very different past from many of our peers, and some ‘site specific’ hang-ups! There were some amazingly off-the-wall characters around and some pretty weird shit happened. I’d like to know which bits you remember, in words and photos. Some of this stuff might be sensitive, so if you are posting photos or texts or relevant transcripts or notes or poems or songs (you could scan them or send them to me ‘snail-mail’ – I will be very careful) onto this weblog please be aware of that, and do so with an open mind.Previous Posts
- Acid
- Glyneirw
- Morfa, Blaenffos
- Meigan Fair
- The Red Barn
- Gwernogle
- Dave Winters’ plays (eg Golden Slumbers)
- May Days at Dolwilym
- The Shed
- Other people's children
2 Comments:
Beth - do you remember camping by the river near Dolwilym, i think Hannah was with us too. We were experimenting with smoking by burning and inhaling hollow twigs that we'd found. Your mum came down to see how we were doing, and joined in with our twig smoking research!
I remember something along those lines. you and me and hannah cox, early teens. i think we both wanted to be her best friend so there was some unspoken rivalry causing a tension!
they've fenced off the river now, which is a shame, cos it was nice messing about by the river.
i'm going to start a river thread maybe. in the meantime i remember pushing david hoffman (not the herbalist) in the river taf once - very funny for all (almost) concerned
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