Captions Statement

Nestled between old and middle aged is a provocative generation who came of age during the second half of the 1960s. For most of their adult lives they wore a badge of honor for just being who they were, when they were. Never content to be images of the generation ahead of them, they predominated over a culture of youth. The turned-on, summer of love hippies of Haight-Ashbury, the tuned-in future barons of Silicon Valley and the drop-out activists of academia ignited the spark that allowed the philosophy major to turn venture capitalist; the protestor to turn teacher; the poet to neuter gender in her syntax; and the long haired engineering student, who redefined the IBM dress code, to become socially conscience.

But now the ranks of the “never trust anyone over 30” are looking over their 60 year-old shoulders into an ever accelerating hallucination. Many see themselves as youthful, while others feel the ravages of a weakened body and spirit. Communally they clutch their iphone with the same zeal as their VW bug 40 years past, and gaze down a new uncertain highway.