Taos Real Estate

Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie: book signing with author Iris Keltz at Starr Interiors, Taos, New Mexico Author Iris Keltz will be signing her book "Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie" at Starr Interiors, 117 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, New Mexico(2 Doors South of the Taos Inn) from 12 noon until 4 pm, July 12, 2009.

The book signing is in conjunction with the Taos Summer of Love Celebration.

For more info: 
Starr Interiors
117 Paseo del Pueblo NorteTaos,
New Mexico
575-759.3065

Photographs available.

Her book, “Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie” has become the definitive reference to the early seventies in Taos during the counter culture movement of that time. The featured photos by noted photographer, Paul Dembski, with her descriptive stories of the people portrayed, capture the magic of those moments in an important chronicle of those very special times.

This is the second event held by Starr Interiors to feature a specific artist in the Taos Summer of Love celebration. Don’t miss this special event and the opportunity to meet the author.

The '6os — the music, the clothes, the political and sexual idealism, the experimentation with drugs, the hunger for peace, creativity, and sharing were a watershed in the way America sees itself. Hippie culture was at the very zenith of that watershed, and Taos was its beating heart, a Mecca that beckoned young pilgrims from all over the country.

Iris Keltz was one of those pilgrims who came to Taos in the '6os. She stayed to become a folk historian of the tribe. Iris' book has all the old timey vibes of a family scrapbook, a marvelous collection of stories and oral histories from the people who lived in the communes that flourished in Taos Morningstar, New Buffalo, Lama, Reality Construction Company, and others.