Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...monolithic symbol." It is made up of about 150 people, "all living in all the houses at once." The community, Liz said, which includes Jim Kweskin of the jug band and Mel Lyman, who considers himself to be a second Jesus Christ, is connected with United Illuminating, which, besides Avatar, makes films, cuts records, and runs building projects in the South...
...Avatar, a hippie-oriented newspaper based on a belief in Mel Lyman and in astrology, was founded in June 1967. "We were appealing to the people who could listen at the time," Liz said, 'the drug people. Now we appeal to everybody; businessmen, church people...
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...