Welcome to Litsy!

Flashback to the psychedelic sixties��sex, drugs and rock-and-roll� was the ethos, and San Francisco�s Haight-Ashbury was the place to be. Clothing store proprietor Peggy Caserta and her customers�an eclectic crew later known as The Grateful Dead, and her friend and lover Janis Joplin�were at the epicenter and the inspiration for adding �Hippies� to our lexicon.Peace, love and brotherhood gave way to heartache, desperation and addiction. Shortly after Janis Joplin�s death, the �60s party was over and the �70s were a decade of lost idealism. Many fascinating, painful, humorous, and devastating escapades later, including a prison break in Mazatlan and her own stint stateside, Peggy finally gets clean and returns to perhaps her greatest challenge�her aging mother on the edge of dementia back home in the Bayou, just in time for Hurricane Katrina.