Happy Birthday Wavy!
Peace activist, philanthropist, jester, and counter culture icon Wavy Gravy turns 90 today.
Tomorrow he will host a benefit concert for Seva. A charity he co-founded that has provided site saving eye surgeries and treatments to millions of people around the world.
Hugh Romney, Jr. was born on May 15, 1936, in Princeton, New Jersey. He was given his nickname Wavy Gravy by blues legend BB King.
Wavy also started camp Winnarainbow. A summer camp where youth can learn gymnastics, juggling, acrobatics, and other performing arts.
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The hippie icon is probably best known as the emcee of Woodstock, but his impact on American culture goes far beyond those three days of peace and music........
He was Albert Einstein’s neighbor, Bob Dylan’s roommate, and the official clown of the Grateful Dead....
He’s been a beatnik poet, a hog farmer and a jester. An actor, an activist, an artist. A Merry Prankster, a Yippie and an ice cream flavor. He introduced granola to the hippies at Woodstock and ran a pig for president against Richard Nixon.......
He ran himself for Berkeley City Council, promising “a rubber chicken in every pothole.”.........
.......and declared by a police officer to be “too weird to arrest.”
In 1969...... tasked with providing security at Woodstock......“If there is serious trouble we have ordered a carload of lemon pies and seltzer bottles for riot control,”....
