Pow-Wow

He just co-edited a tremendous anthology of American short fiction entitled Pow-Wow showcasing diverse talent such as Mark Twain, Russell Charles Leong, Zora Neal Hurston, E. Donald Two-Rivers and even Benjamin Franklin Ishmael, the outcast and the exiled, nonetheless emerges as an important narrator for our times.

CounterPunch 2009

The draping of this Yippie flag over a turn-of-the-century light pole on Main Street, U.S.A. signaled the beginning of the end of the Yippie International Pow-Wow at Disneyland.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Sensing that the piece of political theater that they were trying to pull off wasn't nearly as appealing to the tourists and their cameras as The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean were, the Yippies then made a deliberate effort to put some more "Wow" into their International Yippie Pow-Wow.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

The now-middle-aged Yippies who actually took part in 1970's Pow-Wow talk about how amusing yet annoying it was to continually be shadowed by these soft-spoken, very polite, tie-wearing executives as they moved through the theme park.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

And that -- in the beginning, anyway -- is how Disneyland handled the International Yippie Pow-Wow: managers continually scurried around the park, going up to individual groups of long-haired kids and asking them to "please be cool," to be respectful of all the other guests who'd come out to the park that day with their families, to not ruin these other people's fun with their Yippie activities.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

And that -- in the beginning, anyway -- is how Disneyland handled the International Yippie Pow-Wow: managers continually scurried around the park, going up to individual groups of long-haired kids and asking them to "please be cool," to be respectful of all the other guests who'd come out to the park that day with their families, to not ruin these other people's fun with their Yippie activities.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Sensing that the piece of political theater that they were trying to pull off wasn't nearly as appealing to the tourists and their cameras as The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean were, the Yippies then made a deliberate effort to put some more "Wow" into their International Yippie Pow-Wow.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Sensing that the piece of political theater that they were trying to pull off wasn't nearly as appealing to the tourists and their cameras as The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean were, the Yippies then made a deliberate effort to put some more "Wow" into their International Yippie Pow-Wow.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

The draping of this Yippie flag over a turn-of-the-century light pole on Main Street, U.S.A. signaled the beginning of the end of the Yippie International Pow-Wow at Disneyland.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

The now-middle-aged Yippies who actually took part in 1970's Pow-Wow talk about how amusing yet annoying it was to continually be shadowed by these soft-spoken, very polite, tie-wearing executives as they moved through the theme park.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011