A few neighbors thought I needed to leave, to take my drunken self elsewhere, though Anita was nothing but kind and helpful
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In 1967, shortly before the so-called Summer of Love was gearing-up in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco, Thompson wrote a scathing piece for The New York Times Magazine called, The Hashbury is the Capital of the Hippies, in which he criticized San Franciscos hippie sector as devoid of both the political convictions of the New Left and the artistic core of the Beats, resulting in a culture overrun with young people spending their time in the pursuit of drugs. He concluded, The thrust is no longer for change or progress or revolution but merely to escape, to live on the far perimeter of a world that might have beenperhaps should have beenand strike a bargain for survival on purely personal terms. Disenchanted with the hippie scene, late in 1967, Thompson moved his family back to Colorado, renting a house in a small mountain hamlet outside Aspen called, Woody Creek
Having been in the car driven my the perpetrator, Thompson was charged as an accessory to robbery and sentenced to 60 days in Kentuckys Jefferson County Jail
