Marshall Fine, student reporter for the St. Louis Park Echo, wrote a story about the hippie phenomenon and interviewed some of the performers who were here for the Aquatennial.  Sonny Bono:  “Because I have long hair and wear extravagant clothes, to the adults, I’m a hippie.  But to the hippies, I’m not a hippie.  My ideas are too conventional.”  Marty Balin:  “Sure, but what is a hippie?  It’s just a name.  Adults had to call us something because we were happening and they had to label us something, to prove to themselves that they knew what was going on.  Personally, I think ‘hippies’ sounds like the name of a breakfast cereal.”  Grace Slick:  “It’s not that we all walk around loving each other, but we just don’t like violence.  That’s why there’s so much protest of the war in Vietnam.  But we’re only human.  We’ll argue and get mad just like anyone else.”  Fine ended his article:  “Predictions have been made that the hippie culture will die out within the next year.  If so, it will not go unnoticed.  Summer ’67 is proof enough of that.”