Last of the hippies…
Last of the hippies. I witnessed one major change between my first festival in 1990 and 2000 when this picture was taken. The decline of a more hippy Glastonbury. There were people who had been attending since the 70s. I remember the Tipi Circle as being a proper community plus a presence of people who took worshipping the Goddess very seriously. This man was tending to an improvised garden and meditation somewhere in the hedgerows of the Greenfields. It was a wonderful space. Instant tranquility and the tens of thousands of other festival goers seemed a million miles away. It was probably just the brute driver of ageing that brought about that change. But Glastonbury keeps changing what it is, each generation reshaping it in their likeness.