Maxine Hong Kingston, December 5, in San Francisco

I have to add to Bruce's preceding post on hippie history, that San Francisco retains it hippie--mecca image in the minds (or perhaps I mean imaginations) of many on the far right, unto this day. For any readers lucky enough to be in that City by the Bay currently, or even close enough to easily make it in for an evening,here's an event worth attending:

80 West Portal, San Francisco, CA 94127 415-564-8080 http://www.bookshopwestportal.com/ Open 10 AM - 9 PM Every Day UPCOMING EVENTS AT BOOKSHOP WEST PORTAL

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace Tuesday, December 5 at 7 PM

For more than twelve years, acclaimed author Maxine Hong Kingston, author of China Men, has led writing workshops for veterans and their families. In Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Kingston brings together the fiction, real-life narrative, and poetry of these men and women. Joining Kingston at BookShop West Portal will be five contributors, including a retired Army officer, a peace activist, and an advocate for civilian women who served during the Vietnam conflict. Kingston's award-winning memoir, Woman Warrior, is being honored this year on the 30th anniversary of its publication by the National Book Foundation and the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

Kingston is a living monument to the "alternative" values of peace, feminism, and diversity, that ultimately were results of the cultural revolutions of the sixties and seventies. This is a great opportunity to%

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