Editing Summer of Love (section)

==Funeral and aftermath==
[[File:Death of hippie.jpg|thumb|Mock funeral notice]] 
By the end of summer, many participants had left the scene to join the [[back-to-the-land movement]] of the late 1960s, to resume school studies, or simply to "get a job". Those remaining in the Haight wanted to commemorate the conclusion of the event. A mock funeral entitled "The Death of the Hippie" ceremony was staged on October 6, 1967, and organizer Mary Kasper explained the intended message:<ref name="PBS timeline">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/timeline.html |title=The Year of the Hippie: Timeline |access-date=April 24, 2007 |website=Pbs.org |archive-date=May 15, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515044905/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/sfeature/timeline.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{blockquote|We wanted to signal that this was the end of it, to stay where you are, bring the revolution to where you live and don't come here because it's over and done with.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/filmmore/pt.html|title=Transcript (for ''American Experience'' documentary on the Summer of Love)|publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] and [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]]|date=2007-03-14}}</ref>}}

In New York, the rock musical drama ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'', which told the story of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, began [[Off-Broadway]] on October 17, 1967.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Qfo_thEoWykC&pg=PA75 |title=Collision: When Reality and Illusion Collide |author= Ron Bruguiere |year= 2011 |page=75 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=9781456725242 |access-date=August 5, 2013}}</ref>