Hippie Jack and Friends

The more information about investing you may order nightly business records home video how Wall Street works by calling 1 800 5 3 5 5 8 6 4 this program is available to you for the VHS or DVD format. Yes. Well I'm thinking that it's really really

sad when they come back here and see this cabin where we saw where it all started for us when we first moved up on the plane in 1970 I guess Eric who first bought this property and started the pier bought this little house and this with this property in it and we stored it and it will again. It was. It was a time when moving to the Kurds moved off pursuing their own all through lifestyle was a reality was something that people just thought about do it with a fine art photographer Jack stopped and his wife Lynne moved from Miami to a rural

area of the upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. They were very young and it was the early 70s. They were part of the counterculture revolution that found the people and the hills of Tennessee enduring many of that generation of transplants left but not this daughter. So if we were in town on the square walking around they would just stop the cars and stare at us and I don't think it was because we were that much different that that you know we didn't look that much different. But we were just not from here. And that one with the locals everybody that that's. Here now is gone Jack inland made Overton County their home living and a variety of small communities like Highland mountain and Copeland's cove and captured the people and places prominently on film as a part of their life's work.

It's been over 30 years since Jack and Lynn came to Tennessee. They've raised four children a host of pets and are now experiencing the joy of their first grandchild. This is home. A lot of people that moved out moved out into groups they were

sort of like they were sort of like counterculture gated communities you know that we did that we moved onto into a situation where with all our neighbors who were you know just rural people really wonderful old time people. And that was our peer group that was my peer and and so it didn't take. It wasn't overnight but they certainly accepted us over a period of time. Thank you. Yeah I think it's alright yeah I think I think I was probably never had much luck that brought that up. I have heard that good while you're perfect for your program but your version will join. NO YOU AREn't way over there with the stuff. Oh you want to come.

He doesn't like you. Is it just like me Jack. Oh yeah that's probably because you smell like that is you. Jack had many fine neighbors on Highland mountain people who loved him then and love him now. People like Barry Oakley in the light grey brown Dallas man and Jerry Hammond. Friends who live to see Jack stop by and reminisce about life on the mountain. You know if Horsham you hooking the wagon take a little kick and they are old they come back after dark with a little girl who DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WHAT. And then when the crops was raided to plant together in our way we had to stay out of school. There was no good way

had had to happen feel everybody else planting everybody up together cause everybody had to eat. Most time mama cooked three meals a day just like everybody else. And a lot stands we did our homework though calendars used to come out was blank and I would enough money for the school pipers. We did our homework with all that on the back of whatever we could get. Cause I was 9 kids now is right in the middle. So everybody had to work. Course the right is the everything we let you hand. You had my kid. Dallas Smith is a friend of Jack's and loves to swap stories about life on Highland mountain. I would you tell us a little bit about what it was like when you're a girl. You are what it was like living on Highway. If you grew up right here. Yeah.

Right here. His first cut that know what to say. I will tell you what everybody did for a living tell us what it was like you know day to day. If you go to school like that if you have to go and now be oh why won't you take a chair. And I'd go get a stroke or in much more crowd that I was just mad at you and me and your sister and it took us oh work and farm with it and me and her. Oh to go back and father Patten me moment or fog or choke the you read.

Then I go to school and there and cop then I come home and got one hit the fodder and took a while. Well how do you know what right you are well read what are yours. OK and great and being called the worst and yet he of for that ha. And we have our own men and are and he and she. Just four of us and me. And when I got back I really you know grew up that much

if it was me family and that you would run at getting out of it and went and I was you know at what point would that have color and spread happiness and health. Oh I grant you and but when are you running for what type of work you always were kind of in that well we're going to. Feel like I do. She's good with the helicopters I still think you're bad then. You believe. Were they here last year whether the helicopter got last year. Yeah. Here now you and I know him well.

Oh Paul. What's that. So I'm about it how did it not shine in that. And then I added and then that heater core to put worked right. And the helicopter here crying right outlane are right and I said I am a parent and you are. I did so but I urged and. It got there so I don't want it to end and that's why they. Hate you and then another helicopter and a shark and dire and they actually hurt her. The big guys partnership when Ann and I come that current stuff that I was right at and come at their yard and hit me

or whatever. TB And if that God has given us and I course that thought but it sure I own a Harley you know the ports and here you are great to you know. But. Hey when you fall over that hill propter and draw it why won't it. It's destroyed stand there and it was him that just sat in the car so I've outlived it. And by that I mean I think that for you I'm smart. Can't he did

well when he went like Yeah yeah well you know directing here carrying you strong pop step. So this is Jerry and and Jerry was living over in that house. When I first moved here with Irene. That's right I said her name and and Clarence and loves his mom and daddy and. Was still living here and they lived over here and they were my first friends in Tennessee and I knew quickly that I was going to stay and whatever else I was going to stay in Jerry. He's lived a cleaner life and I have so he can remember. Who can remember what it was like whereby we def irrigation What was it like when all if you started we knew it was and I was in this and I was.

Right here from the laughter dark. Over the house. Yeah yeah we were and after roll year I drive a new car back you know. Yeah I am not coming here from Florida. And light. I think you know that there. Yeah I know what I'm a ravin going an hour if that. What did everybody think when everybody think about. Well everybody was scared of me and I did so I called everybody and they tried to get rid of this one when the first time me and. I come in I was canned 34 more year old oh when they had saved. And or not come in they said. We are going to have no money on the Internet and they all well and it went on how. Few days later I come back in and I was sent an

armful. He sent a sign flying and I sent a look. Out right back here. I'm going to hunt neck. Well we didn't mean. I have got you know one of my favorite memories. Johnny and Larry David and Johnny's brother and Billy. And we were camped in the bend of the road there and had just in a just a credible voice and we were boys and young men and and and they'd go out and maybe drive would strike. Maybe they just go out smuggler cigars and come back in and it looked like you were hunting me. Yeah we've done a lot of those mostly good score

cards would take us to the flea markets where we first moved here Clarence like to get in and he took me to his Koeppen store and he'd take his load of take a set of flea market in. Yeah. You know whatever everybody there was. And you know a big part of the reason that we stayed here was because the people were so good to care because Ray and Ray who were we turned off and stuff like that. It was like it was like it was your family that lived in a lot of ways. Yes. But I always like yeah. Luckily my son I'm not sure so I know you know. Yeah we were we were swayed. We were just we were we really didn't want to do things just to get by. That. It was just different. It was a different time and it was in and and it was still. You know there was just very few jobs and very few who were. And people

stayed home and scratched a little garden. Well I'm I'm a sample. Yeah you know I have a knife in her. We need so much money then and now. Yeah yeah I got time to go to war and well you got time stamps and I'm replying and. Everything's in a hurry. Well we're going to go out and see the cab and see if I ever see those OVO So I goes out there go out when I get married and walk out that way. Now I'm thinking that it's really really something that come back you see this cabin where we see where it all started for us when we first moved up on the planet. In 1970 I guess Eric. Who first bought this property and started here by this row

house and this was his property and stored it in his little boy and and it was you know. It was a time when you move into the country with an awful way for Syria. An altered lifestyle is a reality. Was it something that people just thought about doing when they were tired and I see this and I think that it just brings back to the community that we had that even the short period we were really only up here for six or seven months. But there were six of us living here there was Eric and Mary and Peter and Carol. LIN. Later on there was another couple and we were young children you know. And I didn't feel like a child.

We were children and we were we were attempting to do something very difficult. And we were doing it for the boys at the start. Scratch and I think about the work we put in the time we just have and bills playing music and actually get it done just actually living that dream that I always had and living a countercultural life style and creating a new environment maybe for our children and we had egos we felt like we were setting the pace for the rest of the society in a way you know you got to remember this was when civil rights the civil rights movement was happening. This it's only 30 years ago. I mean politically it was it was unreal.

The change in our tribe had a culture of people behaving people were on the forefront and we were struggling and we were united in trying to do something new and. It's just it's just it's thrilling in a way to come back up here and see this and see that it's still standing and it's pretty much how it was. It's a little disheartening to realize that this particular experiment here has not worked out that you know it's our history. I came to Tennessee it became my mission to to photograph the old cultures and to and to try to preserve the real ways of people and then when I come back here I realize that now I'm come full circle and I'm photographing my own personal culture. And and that in itself is is it's just. This is a museum.

Look at this stuff right here. And I think I remember being right here right here at this table and having meals and and I remember you know. Peter play music at night and we would have the gas lamps on and we'd have the fire in the in the old barrels over here. And it hasn't changed a bit. The books are the same that are on the shelf. It's it's it's unbelievable. The same pestles the same. Maybe if you changed the obit rooms the beaded curtains you know.

I mean. We were children. We were on our way. Look at this sign it's a sin to build a nuclear weapon. I mean that was there and it was here then. Look at this right here. The stuff on the tape that's the oil lamp right there that we that we used. I mean. Here's some some poem written by Kristin who Kristen Paul is somebody that's pass through here at some point. Soon. Here's a note somebody left here and here is that the instructions for the water system somewhere is here is it. There's the leaving check checklist. Turn off outside take the stuff rug on your back door. This is this was been this has been here for 30 years.

I just feel like it could've worked. That's what I feel like I feel like that you know everybody feels like if they do now knew then what they knew now we could have been so we're smarter we could have made it work. But I didn't make it work. You know going on and I stayed in and ultimately we somewhat prospered and this is how it started. This is we were happy to live like this. We were delighted we had it all in a way because we had our time we had our freedom we have freedom and we had our wonderful neighbors. This is nice and stuff. When the fiver I had what I could tell one just like this forever. Live it was big and cornbread. You know hardly any meat nobody really ate nights me we had a lot of brown rice. We made sprouts back then they were making alfalfa sprouts mung bean sprouts. We made homemade bread all the time we made ours over the fire cook fire and we did we made ours at doors. We had wonderful meals you know these

powdered milk and we don't have any refrigeration. You came here to drink clean water. Right. Simple simple. Thank you. Yeah I think we have I don't think it's impossible but we wanted it more than just for ourselves. You know of course everything is a trade but it just seemed a logical way to go as a society at the time and it seemed like we had that mindset as a group to push it through and we stuck. We were having political clout and we were having people mainstream people felt the same way. And now it's like we've become sort of a jet. You talk to people about it now and they look back and they think I saw some TV show the other day they were the big thing about the counterculture people is in everything. That was the only thing that seemed to come across of course we bathe we

bade them here Jerry can tell you you know we were good people we were good people who were doing the right thing and we were trying to spoil anything. And I think that if it had caught on and really been a successful movement I think that we be better off. You know there was not so much greed involved. People didn't want 200 million dollar severance pay. People didn't want to make enough money they have to be in a 17000 square foot house you know nobody wanted that. We were in our time. We would be able to be created. We wanted to make make our own way. We didn't want to have regular jobs and work 9 5. Now that's not a bad thing. But as with every good player and there's always a problem when the problem was the egos get involved

and. We were hard to lead. Usenet closes leaving for another 30 years or. So we could probably get a grant to study this it'll be a dayglo day. People out here do give up hope tried to back a. Sim lives too much and don't forget never forget. I am.