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Wavy Gravy—The Hippie Icon Who Fed the Crowd at Woodstock
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by Jeff TamarkinHe’s a former comic and poet turned clown, a peace activist and hippie icon.
As figurehead for the Hog Farm commune, he made announcements from the stage of the 1969 Woodstock festival. He even had a flavor of ice cream named after him.
He calls himself Wavy Gravy.
He was still known by his birth name of Hugh Romney—born May 15, 1936, in East Greenbush, N.Y.—when he told the assembled crowd at the era-defining upstate New York event, “What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000.” The Hog Farm, a ragtag collective formed in the mid-1960s in California, then made good on its promise, distributing meals to any hungry concert attendee, free of charge.
Watch Romney’s “breakfast in bed” announcement from the Woodstock stage
Romney became Wavy Gravy just two weeks after Woodstock, when blues great B.B.
King reportedly bestowed the nickname