Ohio hippie festival

The weekend of May 15, 2015, offered the latest of the "Color Dance" festivals in Stewart, Ohio. I was sent to photograph it (and got a couple of cameras and lenses destroyed when stoners and children gone wild doused them and me in brightly colored dust. Much of the festival was hindered by rain that began soon thereafter: Kharms'a a bitch. The festival did demonstrate why it is that hippies are so nowadays seldom seen outside of anthropological zoos.

The weekend of May 15, 2015, offered the latest of the "Color Dance" festivals in Stewart, Ohio. I was sent to photograph it (and got a couple of cameras and lenses destroyed when stoners and children gone wild doused them and me in brightly colored dust. Much of the festival was hindered by rain that began soon thereafter: Kharms'a a bitch. The festival did demonstrate why it is that hippies are …  (read more)

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