The House on Masonic: A Haight-Ashbury Story - Paperback

by Susan Knapp (Author)

The more things change, the more they stay the same. War, civil unrest, generational divides, the rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer, unpopular leaders, social upheaval, drugs, racial conflicts - That was the 60s and the only thing different today is that, at least in some states, marijuana is now legal. In the summer of 1967 we thought the Haight-Ashbury, a cross road in an old San Francisco neighborhood, was the flash point for ... something. Maybe a revolution? And it was, just not in all the ways we had hoped and believed. Still, if you were under 30 and didn't know what you were doing, where to go, it was a destination worth trying Chapter 24 of the I Ching: All movement is accomplished in six stages and the seventh brings return. Are we there yet?]

Author Biography

Susan Knapp is the author of The Album, a biography/memoir set in 1927 New England that chronicles the childhood sexual abuse of the author's mother, and, writing as S. Z. Knapp, the first two volumes of a projected vampire trilogy: Red Roses, Bloody Snow and Hot Jazz, Cold Blood. (Volume three expected off press in 2018/19.) Living in the theater-rich town of Ashland, Oregon, she has also authored a one-act play, "The Real Story" and, in a complete departure from form, is working on an illustrated fable (working title "The Raven and Heron"). When not hunched over a keyboard, she spends summers kayaking on the areas many lakes and enjoying the wildlife.