{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 3: From the Summer of Love to Nelson British Columbia \u2014 Inside \u201cResisterville\u201d","description":"Say \u201cSummer of Love\u201d and so many images come to mind \u2014 \u201cfar out\u201d lingo, tie dye and flower power, San Francisco\u2019s Haight-Ashbury district, the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park where you\u2019d sway to local bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.  But for a time and place that changed a generation, it\u2019s amazing just how fleeting all this was.  From what seemed like endless possibilities for 30,000 or so hippies converging on San Francisco, to total collapse in about 10 months.  All amid intense political discord over the Vietnam war, heated civil rights battles and what devolved into hard drug abuse. American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator Tod Gitlin called all this a cyclone in a wind tunnel. In other words, too volatile not to self destruct.   But what if you took this cyclone of hippie spiritual seekers and draft dodgers out of the charged American wind tunnel of political and racial strife at the time.   And what if you transplanted a piece of it into a remote idyllic British Columbian town \u2014 what would all this look like some 50 years later?  Listen in and find out\u2026 Podcast: https:\/\/www.northamericanapodcast.com Facebook: @northamericanapodcast Twitter: @north_podcast Instagram: @northamericana See images, get links to insider travel tips and resources for everything in Episode 3 on our show page.  Also, hear Breena\u2019s travel tips for Nelson and more of her mom\u2019s amazing stories from the San Francisco\u2019s Summer of Love. ","author_name":"North Americana","author_url":"https:\/\/www.northamericanapodcast.com","html":"