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Oral History of Boulder in the ’60s — Naropa Institute and the Early Buddhist Community recalled by anonymous LSD dealer from Bay Area in 1985 interview

Naropa Institute and the Early Buddhist Community This interview is with a person who inadvertantly came to Boulder from Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. A woman who belonged to the STP Family who was hitchhiking through Wyoming led him to Boulder. Then, almost by accident, he ended up in the Buddhist community. The evolution in this […]

An Oral History of Boulder, Colorado — Interview with Curt Butler in 1985

Copyright 2026  S. Byron Gassaway Interviews with various Boulder residents took place in 1985 Introduction Boulder in the early ‘60s was both an urbane, cosmopolitan university town and a parochial small Western community. There was still an authentic “Old West” flavor to Boulder left over from the mining days. The air was clean all the […]