Also now, daily, on the Arthur blog: we're posting essential, foundational documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late '66 through '67. The Diggers' ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader. Most of the documents that we are presenting are broadsides originally printed on a Gestetner machine owned and operated in the Haight by the novelist Chester Anderson and his protege/sidekick Claude Hayward, using the name "Communication Company," or more commonly, "ComCo." These sheets were then distributed along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows. Here's what we've posted so far:

Diggers Papers No. 8 (Jan 1967)—TRIPS tips: "Sequoias as old as the moon and as tall as Jesus. Drop acid before the bus leaves the station. Go in the morning. Stay all day. Bring lunch, but not incense. Pray and be joyous there." http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/07/21/diggers-papers-no-8-the-air-smells-green/

Diggers Papers No. 7: Two posters advertising the January 14, 1967 “Human Be-In” at Golden Gate Park, which featured a principal Digger—poet/dancer/visionary Lenore Kandel—on the stage, plus a write-up for the event by journalist/novelist/poet Chester Anderson, an evocative piece of writing about the day, and representative of how the Diggers were thinking about the free, public events they were bringing into reality: http://bit.ly/fQJl5

Diggers Papers No. 6—"Busted": http://bit.ly/PumpT

Diggers Papers No. 5— “The Digger Office Is Now Open”/Historical Diggers, a double-sided mission statement doc: http://bit.ly/cmlFK

Diggers Papers No. 4: "Second Notice," regarding an impending "festival of busts" by The Man...: http://bit.ly/13sdMb

Diggers Papers No. 3 "Storm Warning": http://bit.ly/3zhGRo

Diggers Papers No. 2: "The Diggers state simply...": http://bit.ly/49lqN5

Diggers Papers No. 1: "The Communication Company announces its presence/mission in Haight-Ashbury, 1967": http://bit.ly/SHCBU