Tie Dye by Zara Brooks-Watson -- The Sequel to Jitterbug
BUY BOTH PAPERBACK EDITIONS OF JITTERBUG & TIE DYE AND GET FREE SHIPPING ON AMAZON. The next era directly after the Fifties, of course, is the Sixties. A new day had begun. Out of the oppressive darkness of the Fifties into the light. A new day for Vincente, Julie and everyone. It was an explosion of freedom. The end of Jim Crow. The dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Woodstock, San Francisco and the Summer of Love. Julie did not miss a thing. The theme of this book are two hippie friends of Julie's whose parents do not approve of their relationship. She helps them run away and hides them until they can negotiate with the parents that are stalking them. This sequel to Jitterbug is entitled Tie Dye. The author grew up in the fifties and sixties so her observations are first hand.
Here is an excerpt from the first page, your first taste of Sixties hippie life:
"A huge multi-colored strobe candle (which looks like a wax torch with a large hollow cardboard tube in the middle) held in place by the akimbo arms of a three foot tall, huge, nude female plaster statue set high up on a dresser, flashed beautifully against the artfully painted dayglo mural on the bedroom wall.
Julietta Bonaventura delicately placed a peacock feather in the bottom rubber band of her long, single braid and put her shiny, silver four-tiered earrings in each pierced ear. She pulled on her large, red, yellow, blue and green sunburst-patterned, tie dyed cotton baggies and picked out a fine white lace sleeveless top and a matching tie dyed chiffon scarf.
She topped it all off with a woven Panama sun hat with a seagull feather stuck in the hatband. Thinking twice she also chose a wooden beaded necklace interspersed with turquoise beads and tiny Indian bells. She dabbed her wrists and neck with Patchouli oil which intensified the cloud of smoke from the huge stick of Patchouli incense in her room. Satisfied that she was seriously hippie chic, she packed her backpack with a tape recorder, Indian incense, a cotton coverlet from India, her tie dyed blouses, shirts, floor length skirts, cotton bags and the last of the marijuana from her garden neatly rolled inside sandwich bags and weighed to the ounce. She put on a jean jacket with a peace symbol sewn on the back underneath a rainbow."
Julie Bonaventura is on her way to Grant Park in downtown Chicago to sell her hand made tie dye, reefer and other vending products on a bedspread underneath a large maple tree in the midst of many protest gatherings and marches down Michigan Avenue and in the park itself. (See photo below.)
Here is an excerpt from the first page, your first taste of Sixties hippie life:
"A huge multi-colored strobe candle (which looks like a wax torch with a large hollow cardboard tube in the middle) held in place by the akimbo arms of a three foot tall, huge, nude female plaster statue set high up on a dresser, flashed beautifully against the artfully painted dayglo mural on the bedroom wall.
Julietta Bonaventura delicately placed a peacock feather in the bottom rubber band of her long, single braid and put her shiny, silver four-tiered earrings in each pierced ear. She pulled on her large, red, yellow, blue and green sunburst-patterned, tie dyed cotton baggies and picked out a fine white lace sleeveless top and a matching tie dyed chiffon scarf.
She topped it all off with a woven Panama sun hat with a seagull feather stuck in the hatband. Thinking twice she also chose a wooden beaded necklace interspersed with turquoise beads and tiny Indian bells. She dabbed her wrists and neck with Patchouli oil which intensified the cloud of smoke from the huge stick of Patchouli incense in her room. Satisfied that she was seriously hippie chic, she packed her backpack with a tape recorder, Indian incense, a cotton coverlet from India, her tie dyed blouses, shirts, floor length skirts, cotton bags and the last of the marijuana from her garden neatly rolled inside sandwich bags and weighed to the ounce. She put on a jean jacket with a peace symbol sewn on the back underneath a rainbow."
Julie Bonaventura is on her way to Grant Park in downtown Chicago to sell her hand made tie dye, reefer and other vending products on a bedspread underneath a large maple tree in the midst of many protest gatherings and marches down Michigan Avenue and in the park itself. (See photo below.)