1967’s hippies, Summer of Love celebrated with free events in Patchogue By Steve Parks (original article) The Summer of Love — the hippie phenomenon centered in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood — began 50 years ago. The golden …
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Artist Spotlight #1 Lisa Petker-Mintz
The Patchogue Arts Council presents “1967: Summer of Love” This week’s Spotlight Artist: Lisa Petker-Mintz “My paintings are autobiographical and focus on different places, people, and experiences in my life. The themes are personal but universal, …
Celebrate Flower Power All Summer Long
Written by Summer of Love Special Features Writer Tara Smith In 1967, school let out for the summer and a cultural revolution brewed as thousands of young people descended upon San Francisco. Civil rights, peace signs and experimentation with drugs …
Psychedelic Imagery Commemorating the Summer of Love is Celebrated in New Mural
By Jay Schuck for Pat-Med Lib If you have visited the library over the last couple weeks, you may have noticed a bit more color on our rear facade! Local artist John Michael Hollingworth, a.k.a. Jonny Mike, has completed his new mural, titled …
Grammy-winning Photographer Rowland Scherman Exhibits Iconic Photographs from the 60s
By Jay Schuck for Pat-Med Lib What do John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King Jr., and Bobby Kennedy all have in common? Rowland Scherman of course! Now on view at the Patchogue-Medford Library is a series of political photographs by …
Mural for Summer of Love
Written by Tara Smith for Long Island Advance https://www.longislandadvance.net/4455/Mural-for-Summer-of-Love Jonny Mike lifted a can of spray paint and swept it across the rear surface of the Patchogue-Medford Library. While working on the …
Welcome Our New and First Executive Director
Written by Tara Smith for the Long Island Advance. https://www.longislandadvance.net/4316/A-first-for-Patchogue-Arts-Council Inflatable carrots towered over revelers strolling past the gazebo in the community garden at last year's Arts on Terry …