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Fountain Of Light (newspaper)
''Fountain of Light'' was a hippie underground press, underground newspaper of the 1960s published monthly in tabloid format in Taos, New Mexico, from 1969 to 1970. At least 14 issues were published before the paper went under in June 1970. History Members of The Family and Lorien communes outside Taos launched the paper in the Lorien Building, a converted warehouse north of town on the Santa Fe Trail. Timothy Miller, in ''The Sixties Communes: Hippies and Beyond'' gives the following brief account of the origins: Seeing a need for services to the hippies who were descending on Taos in droves, The Family prevailed upon a wealthy local counterculturalist—one of the young heirs who played such vital roles in sponsoring communes—to underwrite a natural foods general store, a free medical clinic, an alternative newspaper called the ''Fountain of Light'', and a sort of hippie switchboard, the Taos Community Information Center. The group also ran an alternative school. These enterpri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Press
The terms underground press or clandestine press refer to periodicals and publications that are produced without official approval, illegally or against the wishes of a dominant (governmental, religious, or institutional) group. In specific recent (post-World War II) Asian, American and Western European context, the term "underground press" has most frequently been employed to refer to the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in India and Bangladesh in Asia, in the United States and Canada in North America, and the United Kingdom and other western nations. It can also refer to the newspapers produced independently in repressive regimes. In German occupied Europe, for example, a thriving underground press operated, usually in association with the Resistance. Other notable examples include the '' samizdat'' and '' bibuła'', which operated in the Soviet Union and Poland respectively, duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
