Creating a Lasting Cultural Community: The Grateful Dead at 50

Widely regarded as a 1960s icon, the shaggy part that stood for the unruly whole, the Dead were also the nation's top touring act more than two decades after Woodstock. Join us for a panel discussion as we celebrate the band's 50th anniversary with historian and author Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas Meriwether, and Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead. Dr. Anthea Hartig, California Historical Society Executive Director will moderate the discussion.

5:30 to 6:00 CHS Archivists will showcase materials related to the Grateful Dead, Haight-Ashbury and San Francisco's 1960s rock'n'roll scene at 6:00 Panel Discussion begins.