A former Digger!

Was reading in Entertainment Weekly about the recent Oscars. They mentioned that Peter Coyote was once a member of the Diggers. Now, given the entertainment press’ tendency to present minor factoids without context, that could mean that he hung out with them for a week when he was eighteen, but it’s cool that someone thought it worth mentioning. Man, I wish I’d been around back then…


“His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”

Hey, I used to be one too when I was in grade school…

Coincidentally I watched an episode of the 70s era “To Tell the Truth” yesterday and a former Digger was on. Kitty Carlysle in her chiffon scarf and opera-length pearls was fit to be TIED talking about the counterculture. This guy had written a book, and a factoid flashed on the screen indicated that the book (titled I think “Ringolattio” - unsure of the spelling) had been illustrated by Peter Coyote.