Drake's Treasure

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charles berrard. Drake's Treasure

Prologue

New Order

Disappearance

Café Mar

Havana `64

The Germans

Disclosure

Showdown

Confession

Ianna’s Crop

Back to Bobo

Drake’s Treasure

Refinery

Faultline

Bill Cannon

Mona

The Deal

The Trip

Lincoln Kennedy

God the Son

Expatriate

Havana ‘79

The Bust

The Retreat

New Perspective

Cannabis for Christ

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The floodgates had been opened. Major cities were inundated with America’s youth; even many who had yet to reach puberty were running away from moral hypocrisy and physical, mental, and sexual abuse at home. Turning-on, tuning-in, and dropping-out became the new ethic. Teeny-boppers, artists, professionals, and workers of all kinds were reconsidering their values, rethinking what they were doing for a living and questioning the contradictions in a system that their parents had ignored in order to ‘make it’ in society. A critical reevaluation of family, society, church and state was taking place in a segregated America. Political activists, new spiritual leaders, poets and musicians were providing some of the answers: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panthers, James Baldwin, Mario Savio, Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, Gloria Steinem, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, Sly and the Family Stone, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Country Joe McDonald, Marvin Gaye, the Doobie Brothers, and Randy Newman were among them.

Hugh Hefner’s Playboy and the 007 archetypes were redefining the organization man for whites and blacks. The bohemian beatnik, weaned on jazz, drugs and poetry, had morphed into the flower-child hippie. The activist took another direction.

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“Ozay, I need ta tell ya some things ‘bout ya granpa I never told ya befo’. You know ya named afta Ozay, yo half-Cherokee granpa. I think it was like the Spanish ‘Jose,’ just mispronounced. When I would push him, he’d admit ta not really knowing, ‘cause he was an orphan raised by his aunt an’ his Cherokee uncle, who claim that his mama and papa died in a fire. Clari, would ya bring me some tea? Just heat up the little bit of water left over in the tea pot.”

“The sassafras mint, or the chamomile, Grammy?”

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