Secrets of the Hippies

A bumpy ride through the counterculture of 1960s America…

After a childhood living on a dairy farm and atomic weapons bases, young John moves to the San Francisco Bay Area in time for his high school years. While his Naval officer father ferries troops to the new Vietnam War, John gets tear-gassed in anti war demonstrations. The generation gap is a gaping chasm in his family. When his family sails off to Hong Kong to be missionaries, John is left behind in San Francisco.

Lightbulb Coffee tells the story of the Sixties through the voice of a young hippie who found his way through the chaos of riots, homelessness, free love, and protest marches. Available on line at Poet’s Corner Bookshop.

John Schnick has been a farm boy, navy brat, juvenile delinquent, high school dropout, railroad bum, alpinist, art director, and now, a writer.

He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Josie, plus two large smelly dogs