Two who lived it discuss 1960s counterculture

AT BOOKWORKS: Jack Loeffler and Meredith Davidson will talk about “Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 16.

This book pays homage to the counterculture movement through the words and photographs of a select gathering of people who lived it. At its height, in the late

1960s and early 1970s, the counterculture movement permeated every region of America as thousands of activists took on the establishment.

Although counterculture has often been trivialized as dirty hippies and sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll, committed activists formed powerful strands of resistance to the political-militaryindustrial complex. American Indians, Hispanos, blacks, and Anglos joined in marches and protests, often at their peril. Veterans of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, communes in northern New Mexico, practitioners of drug-induced mysticism, disciplined seekers of spiritual awakening, backto-the-landers, defenders of wilderness counterculturalists all questioned, reframed, and redefined American and global perspectives that remain to this day.

Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd. NW. Call 344-8139.

AT THE NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER: At 2 p.m. Saturday, May 20, Margaret Garcia will discuss and read “Tell Me Another War Story,” chronicling the history of the New Mexico National Guard 200th Coast

Artillery, their valiant stand on Bataan in the Philippines, and their reluctant surrender on April 9, 1942, followed by the infamous Bataan Death March and status as POWs. She will also talk about the experiences of her father, Evans Garcia, growing up in southern New Mexico, in the battle and prison camp, and how he and his “buddies” stayed together after coming home, serving their fellow veterans and doing all they could to keep the Bataan story alive.

The National Hispanic Cultural Center is at 1701 Fourth SW. Call 2462261.