Editing Summer of Love (section)

=== Culture of San Francisco ===
[[File:Junction of Haight and Ashbury.jpg|thumb|upright|Intersection of Haight Street and Ashbury Street, the upper Haight neighborhood, San Francisco, celebrated as the central location of the Summer of Love]]

Inspired by [[Jack Kerouac]]{{'}}s ''[[On the Road]]''<ref name="selvin-SoL"/> (1957) and the [[Beat Generation]] of authors of the 1950s, who had flourished in the [[North Beach, San Francisco|North Beach]] area of San Francisco, those who gathered in Haight-Ashbury during 1967 allegedly rejected the conformist and materialist values of modern life and adhered to the [[psychedelic]] movement; there was an emphasis on sharing and community.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/On-View/Past-Exhibitions/Summer-of-Love/Counterculture|title=Counterculture|website=Smith.edu|language=en-US|access-date=August 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816150322/https://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/On-View/Past-Exhibitions/Summer-of-Love/Counterculture|archive-date=August 16, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Diggers (theater)|Diggers]] established a Free Store, and [[Haight Ashbury Free Clinics]] was founded on June 7, 1967, where medical treatment was provided.<ref>M. Isserman, and M. Kazin (eds), ''America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s'', (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 151–172.</ref>