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By Stewart Rogers, Ken Sanders, Vicki Passey Williams, and Steve Williams
Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. The hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were seen by many as immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work and too selfish to embrace the American way of life.
Ken Sanders ruminates on the passing of U. Utah Phillips—anarchist, Wobbly, hobo, railroader, songwriter, folksinger, activist, iconoclast, husband, father and all-around amazing human being. The golden voice of the great Southwest, U. Utah Phillips,...