Furthur, Boca Raton, FL

You can call it the counter culture or hippies but you have to admit every time you immerse yourself in this culture, you embrace a world of freedom, hope and creativity. 

The lifestyle, dress, spirituality, richly colored produce and every imaginable concoction with  healthy grains sold on Shakedown Street is still the same as it was twenty years ago.  

The culture is a precursor and a reflection of what is sweeping our nation today known as Whole Foods-ism or the slow food movement.  The emphasis is clear–a focus on community, fresh products, an exchange and a return to life as it was. 

It is a culture trying to rescue a system endangered by good all fashion corporate greed and commercialism.  The music was wonderful.  They played the classics like Turn on Your Love Light, Uncle John’s Band and Eyes of the World.  Everyone is dancing and you leave enriched with a heightened sense of euphoria.  You feel you have the power to change things.