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...year ago the Mole brought a welcome change for the Boston Movement. It offered hard news from a radical and revolutionary viewpoint about the Boston community instead of the lifestyle incantations of the Avatar's godly Mel Lyman. Compared with the hippie radical press around the nation, the Mole of a year ago would still be a vast improvement. In Washington, D. C. the Free Press and the Quicksilver Times still fill their pages with full page pictures of nude couples and psychedelic judges. It is not the kind of information on which a university strike could be waged, much...
Last year I happened to be in the store one night down at the corner of Upton St. and Ed Beardsley, this fellow connected with the Avatar, came in and he had put them in the store to sell, and he asked Jimmy in the store, how they were selling, the clerk of the store how they were selling, and Jimmy said look up there and see how they're selling. I said what is it? He said a newspaper. I said something new? And this Beardsley said yeah. So I looked at one of the copies of Avatar...
...Charles St. hippies read Avatar, she said, but that's their only connection with Fort Hill. "They're on a lower level. Still doing their own thing...
Last year there was a split among Avatar people, and most of the real Fort Hill community went to New York in January to publish American Avatar, but the Boston paper was having trouble, Liz said. "We were back in September. Now Avatar, although called American Avatar, is a Fort Hill enterprise again...
...handed me a printed list of drugs, kept in a desk drawer in Avatar's Rutland St. office in Roxbury. The drug list, ranging from "caapi, extract of banisteria caapi or seeds of wild rue," to sominex, had only LSD, marijuana, hashish, mescaline, and psilocybin marked as useful...