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The Diggers: In Search of George Metesky

Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 16 March 1967

ON A WINTER evening, knots of anxious hippies assembled at San Francisco's Howard Presbyterian Church, overlooking the treelined mall called the Panhandle. Now and then the clusters parted like shaggy doors to make way for an envoy from the feared and hated Straight Community.

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