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Encountering America: Sixties Psychology, Counterculture and by Jessica Grogan

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By Jessica Grogan

A dramatic narrative historical past of the mental circulate that reshaped American culture

The expectation that our careers and private lives might be expressions of our genuine selves, the idea that our relations may be outlined through openness and realizing, the concept remedy may help us succeed in our fullest potential—these principles became so common that it's very unlikely to visualize our global with no them.

In Encountering America, cultural historian Jessica Grogan finds how those principles stormed the barricades of our tradition throughout the humanistic psychology movement—the paintings of a handful of maverick psychologists who revolutionized American tradition within the Sixties and '70s. Profiling concept leaders together with Abraham Maslow, Rollo may possibly, and Timothy Leary, Grogan attracts on untapped fundamental assets to discover how those minds and the altering cultural surroundings mixed to create a generally influential flow. From the gang of rules that turned referred to as New Age to perennial American anxieties approximately well being, id, and goal, Grogan strains how humanistic psychology maintains to outline the best way we comprehend ourselves.

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Originally known as Burying Hill, the official plat was recorded on November 1882. The first person to be buried in this cemetery was Hannah Garrison, mother of Oscar Garrison, one of Wayzata’s founders. The cemetery remains an important landmark linking the town to its past. ) 43 Wayzata’s First Brick School. Built in 1880, the red brick school atop Schoolhouse Hill facing Rice Street (above) held classes for the younger students on the first floor (below), and was also used as a community gathering space.

The first settlers waited for the lake to freeze, then traveled and moved their goods using the most direct route across the lake, plowing roads on the ice to facilitate travel. ) Wayzata Band Shell. Beginning in the late 1880s, Wayzata had a band shell in the center of town at what is now Lake Street and Broadway Avenue. During summer months, the Cornet Band performed for villagers and tourists in matching uniforms. A modest structure, the band shell shook when the horns and snare drum were played.

It stands today as the Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka. ) 36 Methodist Episcopal Church, Excelsior. This church was built on George Street in 1885. After many improvements and expansions, the congregation built a larger church, Excelsior United Methodist Church, on Highway 7 in 1958, and the old church was demolished. ) Camp Memorial Chapel, Minnetonka Beach. George and Lucy Camp financed this chapel in 1888, designed by Cass Gilbert and facing Lafayette Bay. It was dedicated to Camp’s three infant daughters who died, and the first service held was the wedding of their surviving daughter.

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