Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers

ISBN 10: 0922820139 / ISBN 13: 9780922820139

Published by Watermark Pr, 1991

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• Title: Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers
• Publisher: Watermark Pr
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0922820139
• ISBN 13: 9780922820139
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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The Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers were marijuana harvesters around Lawrence, Kansas during the 1960s and 1970s. A variety of the weed known locally as K-pot grew plentifully, nurturing a counterculture celebrated here in a foreword by William S. Burroughs and a series of oral history excerpts by Lawrence's former hippies. Their recollections focus mainly upon drugs, sex, and violence, tales and tall tales lovingly preserved to the final raunchy detail. Alternately funny and nasty, the book is a nearly perfect memento of the utter pointlessness of the era's excesses. Readers nostalgic for "that peace and love shit" will go unrewarded, but a dope harvest makes a good episode. This is marginal, though, even for the deepest regional collections.
- Robert F. Nardini, North Chichester, N.H.
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