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SHENK >FIRST=DAVID PUBLISHER=BROADWAY BOOKS YEAR=2015 OCLC=911054461 FOQ-CQAAQBAJPLAINURL=YES, }}WAVY GRAVY’S 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (WITH WAVY IN ATTENDANCE), JOHN KADLECIK & THE TERRAPIN ALL-STARS, FEAT. GRAHAME LESH & MANY MORE - THE ARDMORE MUSIC HALL - ARDMORE, PA - JUNE 11TH, 2016 >WEBSITE=TICKETFLY URL=HTTPS://WWW.TICKETFLY.COM/EVENT/1184305-WAVY-GRAVYS-80TH-BIRTHDAY-ARDMORE/, 2019-08-18, | birth_place = East Greenbush, New York, U.S.| death_date = | death_place = | nationality = AmericanActivism>Comic}}Bonnie Beecher |1965}}| children = 1wavygravy.net/}}| signature = WavyGravy.png}}Hugh Nanton Romney Jr. (born May 15, 1936), known as Wavy Gravy, is an American entertainer and peace activist best known for his role at Woodstock, as well as for his hippie persona and countercultural beliefs.Romney has founded or co-founded several organizations, including the activist commune the Hog Farm, and later, as Wavy Gravy, Camp Winnarainbow and the Seva Foundation. He founded the Phurst Church of Phun in the 1960s,BOOK, Romney, Hugh, 1992, Something Good for a Change,archive.org/details/somethinggoodfor00wavy/page/194, New York, NY, St. Martin’s Press, 194–198, 0312078382, registration, a secret society of comics and clowns that aimed to support ending of the Vietnam War through political theater, and has adopted a clown persona in support of his political activism, and more generally as a form of entertainment work,{{not verified in body|date=August 2019}} including as the official clown of the Grateful Dead.As Wavy Gravy, he has had two radio shows on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Jam On station. A documentary film based on his life, (Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie), was released in late 2010 to generally positive reviews. Romney was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award by the World Folk Music Association in 1992.BOOK, Number #1 : the story of the original Highwaymen, Noble, Richard E., Outskirts Press, 2009, 9781432738099, Denver, 265–267, 426388468,

Early life and education

Hugh Nanton Romney Jr. was born in East Greenbush, New York, on May 15, 1936.WEB,www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-05-19-9805190309-story.html, ‘60S ICON REFLECTS ON HIS LONG, STRANGE TRIP, Eng, Monica, 1998-05-19, Chicago Tribune, en-US, 2020-01-02, JOURNAL, Shipley, Morgan, 2012-08-15, A Conversation with Wavy Gravy, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, en, 6, 2, 127–141, 10.1353/jsr.2012.0015, 145011564, 1930-1197, His father, Hugh Romney Sr., was an architect.WEB,www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-06-12-8602110969-story.html, Wavy Gravy, Witt, Linda, 1986-06-12, Chicago Tribune, en-US, 2020-01-02, Romney was raised in early life in Princeton, New Jersey, and by middle school age his family moved to West Hartford, Connecticut.MAGAZINE, Murray, Nick, 2014-10-17, Wavy Gravy Recounts His Bizarre, Star-Crossed Hippie Journey,www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/wavy-gravy-recounts-his-bizarre-star-crossed-hippie-journey-241384/, 2020-11-17, Rolling Stone, en-US, He attended William Hall High School, graduating in 1954.WEB,www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-woodstock-50-anniversary-connecticut-attendees-20190815-6kmhq25l5bf7tenocyo2yum3cu-story.html, 50 years later, West Hartford’s Wavy Gravy and other Connecticut festival-goers recall the power of Woodstock, Rand, Slade, 2019-08-15, Hartford Courant news, 2020-01-02, Twenty years before Woodstock, a young Gravy, then Hugh Romney, moved to West Hartford with his mother and step-father, where he attended middle school. He eventually graduated from Hall High School in 1954 and discovered a love of art at the Wadsworth Atheneum. As a musical theater student at Boston University in the late 1950s, he’d round up musicians and poets who weren’t doing anything on Mondays and drive into Hartford to put on poetry and jazz shows at the Golden Lion., After high school graduation, he volunteered for the United States Army, serving as a sign painter, to take advantage of the G.I. Bill.WEB,relix.com/articles/detail/pre-wavy-gravy-selected-stops-along-hugh-romney-s-road/, Pre-Wavy Gravy: Selected Stops Along Hugh Romney’s Road, 2011-07-07, Relix Media, en-US, 2020-01-02, My stepfather was an aide to [General] Omar Bradley and he suggested, “Don’t volunteer for anything but typing and sign making!” So I went into a new company for basic training at Fort Dix [NJ] and, lucky me, they wanted sign painters., He was honorably discharged after 22 months.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}Romney entered Boston University Theater Department in the late 1950s under the G.I. Bill,WEB,www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/90/the-depths-of-a-clown, The Depths Of A Clown, The Sun Magazine, en-US, 2020-01-02, and then attended the Neighborhood Playhouse for the Theater in New York City.In 1958, he began reading poetry regularly at The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village in New York City, where he eventually became the cafe’s entertainment director, befriending musicians such as Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, and Dave Van Ronk.WEB, Van Laarhoven, Kaspar, The Story of The Gaslight Cafe, Where Dylan Premiered ‘A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall’, Bedford+Bowery, December 28, 2016,bedfordandbowery.com/2016/12/the-story-of-the-gaslight-cafe-where-dylan-premiered-a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall/, August 9, 2018, He lived with Bob Dylan upstairs at 116 MacDougal Street.

Career

His early career was managed by Lenny Bruce who brought Romney to California in 1962 where he did a live recording of Hugh Romney, Third Stream Humor as the opening act for Thelonious Monk at Club Renaissance in Los Angeles.Kelley, Robin D.G. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Simon & Schuster 2009 p.320

The Hog Farm

The Hog Farm collective was established through a chain of events beginning with Ken Babbs hijacking the Merry Pranksters’ bus, Furthur, to Mexico, which stranded the Merry Pranksters in Los Angeles.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} First Romney assembled a collective in North Hollywood, visited by musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Tiny Tim (whom he managed).{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}After moving to Sunland, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles, Romney was evicted from his one-bedroom cabin after the landlord discovered that a large group of assorted pranksters and musicians were staying there. Two hours later, a neighbor informed Romney that a nearby hog farm needed caretakers after the farmer had suffered a stroke, and Romney accepted an offer to work at the farm in exchange for rent.WEB, Zekley, Mickey, 1995,www.larkcamp.com/adventures1.html, The Hog Farm Blues, The Adventures Of A Street Musician – Part One, Local people, musicians, artists, and members of other communes began staying at the mountain-top farm.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} In his book Something Good for a Change, Gravy described this early period as a “bizarre communal experiment” where the “people began to outnumber the pigs”.{{sfnp|Wavy Gravy|1992|p=229}}Throughout the mid-1960s, both Romney and his wife, Bonnie Beecher, were employed in Los Angeles. He worked for Columbia Pictures teaching improvisation skills to actors.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} Beecher was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, (Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek), and The Fugitive.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}By 1966, the Hog Farm had coalesced into an entertainment organization providing light shows at the Shrine Exposition Hall in Los Angeles for music artists such as the Grateful Dead, Cream, and Jimi Hendrix.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} Beginning in 1967, the collective began traveling across the country in converted school buses purchased with money earned as extras in Otto Preminger’s feature film Skidoo (1968).The Hog Farm relocated to the Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville, Mendocino County, in Northern California in the early 1990s.WEB, Black Oak Ranch History,katewolfmusicfestival.com/black-oak-ranch-history/, Kate Wolf Music Festival, January 23, 2016, May 27, 2019,katewolfmusicfestival.com/black-oak-ranch-history/," title="web.archive.org/web/20190527063246katewolfmusicfestival.com/black-oak-ranch-history/,">web.archive.org/web/20190527063246katewolfmusicfestival.com/black-oak-ranch-history/, dead, WEB,www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/for-the-earth-goddess/Content?oid=2132343, For the Earth Goddess, Doran, Bob, North Coast Journal, en, 2020-01-02,

Woodstock Festival

At the first Woodstock Festival, Romney and the Hog Farm collective accepted festival executive Stan Goldstein’s offer to help with preparations.BOOK, Wavy Gravy, The Hog Farm and Friends, Links Press, 1974, 72–74, 9780825630149, New York, 947606, Romney called his group the “Please Force,” a reference to their non-intrusive tactics at keeping order, e.g., “Please don’t do that, please do this instead”. When asked by the press—who were the first to inform him that he and the rest of the Hog Farm were handling security—what kind of tools he intended to use to maintain order at the event, his response was “Cream pies and seltzer bottles” (both being traditional clown props). In Gravy’s words: “They all wrote it down and I thought, ‘the power of manipulating the media’, ah ha!“BOOK, Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago, ‘68, to 1984, New Yippie Book Collective, 9780912873008, Bleecker Publishing, 1983, Romney made announcements from the concert stage throughout the festival. He later wrote in his memoir that “the reason that I got to do all those stage announcements was because of my relationship with Chip Monk [sic]. Chip built the stage at Woodstock.“BOOK, Something Good for a Change: Random Notes on Peace Thru Living, Wavy Gravy, 1992, St. Martin’s Press, 9780312078386, 1st, New York, 25367907, registration,archive.org/details/somethinggoodfor00wavy, At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s psychedelic tribute to the 1960s “I Want To Take You Higher”,WEB,www.rockhall.com/exhibitpast/take-you-higher/, The Psychedelic Era, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, dead,www.rockhall.com/exhibitpast/take-you-higher/," title="web.archive.org/web/20070905195019www.rockhall.com/exhibitpast/take-you-higher/,">web.archive.org/web/20070905195019www.rockhall.com/exhibitpast/take-you-higher/, 2007-09-05, Romney’s sleeping bag and tie-dyed false teeth were displayed. He and Paul Krassner appeared there on the last day of the exhibit on February 28, 1998.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}Romney, as Wavy Gravy after the first Woodstock, has been the Master of Ceremonies of, and the only person to appear on the bill of all three Woodstock festivals: the original festival in 1969, the 25th{{spaces}}anniversary Woodstock ‘94 festival in 1994, and the 30th{{spaces}}anniversary Woodstock ‘99 festival in 1999. On the morning of the 20th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, he and author Ken Kesey were interviewed on Good Morning America, live from the Bethel concert site, where he discussed his experience as the MC of the event.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}

Wavy Gravy name origin

At the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival, two weeks after Woodstock, Romney was lying onstage, exhausted after spending hours trying to get festival-goers to put their clothes back on. He later explained, “They had these conga drummers on the stage, and I said, ‘Don’t dance on the wavy gravy’. Then someone announced that B.B. King was there, and he was going to play for free. I started to get up, and I felt this hand on my shoulder and it was B.B. King. And he said, ‘Are you Wavy Gravy?’ and I just said, ‘Yes, sir,’ and he said, ‘Wavy Gravy, I can work around you.’ And he stood me up next to his amplifier, and Johnny Winter comes from the other side, and they played all night long.“WEB, Young, Michael E., Appleton, Roy, August 30, 2009,www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/083009dnmetlewispopnotes.40d6864.html, Texas International Pop Festival Was Full of Surprises for Artists, Fans, Onlookers, The Dallas Morning News,web.archive.org/web/20091003205142/https://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/083009dnmetlewispopnotes.40d6864.html, October 3, 2009, January 22, 2023, Interview {{who|date=July 2011}} on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 26 May 2011. Romney said he considered this a mystical event, and assumed Wavy Gravy as his legal name.WEB,www.wavygravy.net/bio/biography.html, About - Wavy Gravy, wavygravy.net, April 15, 2018, June 2, 2017,www.wavygravy.net/bio/biography.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20170602135326www.wavygravy.net/bio/biography.html,">web.archive.org/web/20170602135326www.wavygravy.net/bio/biography.html, dead, {{third-party inline|date=August 2019}}

Phurst Church of Phun and clowning

{{BLP sources section|date=July 2023}}{{BLP sources section|date=August 2019}}After frequent arrests at demonstrations, Wavy Gravy decided that his arrest would be less likely if he dressed as a clown. Romney therefore co-founded the Phurst Church of Phun,{{when|date=August 2019}} a secret society of comics and clowns dedicated to ending the Vietnam War through the use of political theater. Romney also performs more generally as a clown, including entertaining children, work that includes such traditional clown activities as joke-telling and magic tricks. As Wavy Gravy, he has served as an official clown of the Grateful Dead.{{when|date=August 2019}}WEB,artsedge.kennedy-center.org/explore/ady.cfm?day=18&month=3&year=2006, Arts Days, The Kennedy Center Arts Edge,artsedge.kennedy-center.org/explore/ady.cfm?day=18&month=3&year=2006," title="web.archive.org/web/20070401051000artsedge.kennedy-center.org/explore/ady.cfm?day=18&month=3&year=2006,">web.archive.org/web/20070401051000artsedge.kennedy-center.org/explore/ady.cfm?day=18&month=3&year=2006, April 1, 2007, April 15, 2018,

Art

Wavy Gravy has also been recognized for his work as a collage artist, with work presented at a solo exhibition in April 1999 at the Firehouse Gallery in New York under gallery owner Eric Gibbons.NEWS, On the Towns; Going Out, The New York Times, April 4, 1999,www.nytimes.com/1999/04/04/nyregion/on-the-towns-going-out.html?pagewanted=all, 24 October 2012, He had an exhibition, Wavy Gravy Retrospective (1996) at the Firehouse Gallery of Bordentown, New Jersey.He began exploring collage in the early ‘60s, and his first works were created in the period where he lived above the Gaslight in Greenwich Village; he has stated that he was inspired by a Max Ernst collage he saw at the Bitter End, when he opened for Peter, Paul and Mary.{{when|date=August 2019}}{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} His collage work includes larger pieces done for celebrities in the San Francisco Bay Area.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}

Neo-pagan appearances

Wavy Gravy’s first appearance at an event in the Neo-Pagan community was at the WinterStar Symposium in 1998 with Paul Krassner.WEB,murugabooker.com/ace.html, Expanding The Frontiers Of Your Consideration, usurped,murugabooker.com/ace.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20070928075503murugabooker.com/ace.html,">web.archive.org/web/20070928075503murugabooker.com/ace.html, 2007-09-28, {{Failed verification|date=July 2018}} He appeared there again in 2000 with Phyllis Curott, where he joined Rev. Ivan Stang in a joint ritual of the Church of the SubGenius and his Church of the Cosmic Giggle.WEB,blues.gr/profiles/blogs/the-activist-clown-hippie-icon-wavy-gravy-talks-about-the-seva, The activist clown & hippie-icon, Wavy Gravy talks about the Seva Foundation, Woodstock, Grateful Dead, Buddha & Nikos Kazatzakis, 2012 at 2:00pm, Posted by Michael Limnios Blues Network on January 12, View, Blog, blues.gr,

Ventures

Seva Foundation

Wavy Gravy co-founded the Seva Foundation in 1978, along with spiritual leader Ram Dass and public health expert Dr. Larry Brilliant.WEB,www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/08/mickey-hart-jackson-browne-bonnie-raitt-perform-at-seva-foundation-fundraiser/, Mickey Hart, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt perform at Seva Foundation fundraiser, 2019-01-08, The Mercury News, en-US, 2020-01-02, NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/business/30charity.html, Google Finds It Hard to Reinvent Philanthropy, Strom, Stephanie, 2011-01-29, The New York Times, 2020-01-02, Helft, Miguel, en-US, 0362-4331, NEWS,www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/12/23/us/ap-us-obit-ram-dass.html, Baba Ram Dass, Spiritual Guru and LSD Proponent, Dies at 88, 2019-12-23, The New York Times, 2020-01-02, en-US, 0362-4331, Based in Berkeley, California, Seva Foundation is an international health organization working to build sustainable sight restoration programs in many of the globe’s most under-served communities.WEB,www.petaluma360.com/entertainment/8437281-181/wavy-gravy-goes-hog-wild, Wavy Gravy goes hog wild in Petaluma, 2018-06-21, Petaluma Argus Courier, en, 2020-01-02, Gravy is famous for throwing all-star benefit concerts regularly featuring members of the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Ani DiFranco, Ben Harper, Elvis Costello, and many other musicians.

Camp Winnarainbow

Gravy co-founded, with his wife, the circus and performing arts camp Camp Winnarainbow, now located in Laytonville, California near the Hog Farm.{{When|date=January 2020}}WEB, Schwartz, Vinny, 2015, Seeing is Believing - The Story of Wavy Gravy and SEVA Foundation,www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-news-article-3798.html, 2020-01-02, Sonoma County Gazette, October 1, 2017,www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-news-article-3798.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171001114502www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-news-article-3798.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171001114502www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-news-article-3798.html, dead, He co-ran the camp alongside Txi Whizz (also known as Barbara Hanna), his “right-hand woman”.WEB, Bender, Kristen, 6 July 2004, Adults learn wacky life lessons,www.eastbaytimes.com/2004/07/06/adults-learn-wacky-life-lessons/, 16 October 2021, East Bay Times,

“Tornado of Talent”

In September 1981 there was an anti-nuclear protest, which included trespassing, blockade, occupation, and civil disobedience action at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, organized by the Abalone Alliance.WEB, King, Peter H., 20 September 1981, N-Protests Grid for Big New Assault,www.newspapers.com/image/461106031/, subscription, 2021-10-21, Newspapers.com, The San Francisco Examiner, 1, 20, en, Approximately 640 protesters were arrested, and Wavy Gravy and Jackson Browne were in attendance.Browne was able to have an acoustic guitar and performed in the gymnasium at Cuesta College; where the male incarcerated were being held. Gravy organized and acted as MC for a variety show there that he called the, “Tornado of Talent”. Wavy arrived at the holding facility dressed in a pair of bright green coveralls. After settling into his “bunk” (a thin mattress on the gym floor) he removed the coveralls to reveal a Santa Claus suit.

Nobody for President and Nobody’s Business

“Wavy Gravy nominated Nobody for president at the “Yippie National Convention” outside the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in 1976. It was the second time the Hog Farm had nominated a candidate for the Presidency, following the nomination of the hog, Pigasus, eight years prior.WEB, Nobody for President ‘84 Bumper Sticker,www.blackoakranch.com/product-page/nobody-for-president-84-bumper-sticker, Black Oak Ranch, en, “Wavy Gravy ran a “Nobody for President” campaign that held a rally across from the White House on November 4, 1980, which included Yippies and a few anarchists to promote the option of “none of the above” choice on the ballot—as in, “Nobody’s Perfect”, “Nobody Keeps All Promises”, “Nobody Should Have That Much Power”, and “Who’s in Washington right now working to make the world a safer place? Nobody!”.WEB,www.nobodyforpresident.org/, Nobody for President, 2020 [Official Pages], www.nobodyforpresident.org, April 15, 2018, WEB, October 12, 1976, Nobody For President, HeadCount.org,www.headcount.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Nobody-for-President.jpg, {{full citation needed|date=August 2019}}{{third-party inline|date=August 2019}} After criticizing Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and John B. Anderson, the committee offered the “perfect” candidate: Nobody. “Nobody makes apple pie better than Mom. And Nobody will love you when you’re down and out,” Gravy told a crowd of 50 onlookers at the rally.JOURNAL, November 5, 1980, Anarchists Push Cause of ‘None of the above’, The New York Times, {{full citation needed|date=August 2019}}WEB,www.wholeearth.com/issue/2061/article/271/20th.anniversary.rendezvous.-.wavy.gravy, Gravy, Wavy, 20th Anniversary Rendezvous—Wavy Gravy, Whole Earth Review, WholeEarth.com, Winter 1988, August 16, 2018, July 20, 2017,www.wholeearth.com/issue/2061/article/271/20th.anniversary.rendezvous.-.wavy.gravy," title="web.archive.org/web/20170720143046www.wholeearth.com/issue/2061/article/271/20th.anniversary.rendezvous.-.wavy.gravy,">web.archive.org/web/20170720143046www.wholeearth.com/issue/2061/article/271/20th.anniversary.rendezvous.-.wavy.gravy, dead, {{third-party inline|date=August 2019}} The allusion had been used previously, in the 1932 short film Betty Boop for President.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}Gravy established the store Nobody’s Business across the road from the Hog Farm.{{when|date=August 2019}}JOURNAL, Brown, Jonathan, October 25, 2007, Still hippy after all these years, The Independent, London, England,www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/still-hippy-after-all-these-years-395296.html, {{full citation needed|date=August 2019}} reminiscent of his “Nobody for President” campaign.

Personal life

(File:Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney.jpg|thumb|Wavy Gravy and his wife, Jahanara Romney (July 2013))He was briefly married to a “Frenchwoman” in the early 1960s; the marriage ended in divorce.In 1965, Wavy Gravy married the actress Bonnie Jean Beecher, who later adopted the name Jahanara Romney.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/movies/08saint.html, ‘Saint Misbehavin’ - The Wavy Gravy Movie’ - Review, Holden, Stephen, 2010-12-07, The New York Times, 2020-01-02, en-US, 0362-4331, In 1965 Mr. Romney married Bonnie Jean Beecher, who later became Jahanara Romney and has been his wife for 45 years. We meet his cheerful son, Howdy Do-Good Gravy Tomahawk Truckstop Romney, later changed to Jordan, who was born on the seat of a Greyhound bus., They have a son, born in 1971 as Howdy Do-Good Gravy Tomahawk Truckstop Romney, who has since become known as Jordan Romney.

Radio programs

{{expand section|with=further details about this substantive career activity|small = no|date=August 2019}}As Wavy Gravy, he has had two radio shows on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Jam On station.WEB,www.lifewire.com/sirus-satellite-radio-personalities-2844372, Deitz, Corey, June 19, 2018, Sirius XM Satellite Radio Personalities, Lifewire, July 29, 2018,

• Gravy in Your Ear: Gravy’s radio show airing on the 15th of each month (including his birthday on the 15th of May) on Sirius Satellite Radio, with several re-broadcasts.
• The Wavy Files: a series of individual commentary segments by Gravy placed randomly throughout the Jam On programming on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Filmography{| class“wikitable sortable“|+Filmography

!Year!Title!Role!Type!Notes|1963|The Fat Black Pussycat|Assistant Detective (as Hugh Romney)|Film|Detective film|1970Woodstock (film)>Woodstock|Himself|Film|Documentary film|1972|Cisco Pike|Reed (as Hugh Romney)|FilmWEBSITE=TVGUIDE.COMACCESS-DATE=2020-01-02, |1994|Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document|Himself|Television||1995|The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll, Vol. 6|Himself|Television||1997|Timothy Leary’s Last Trip |Himself|FilmWEBSITE=FILMLANGUAGE=EN-US, 2020-01-02, |1999|The ‘60s||Film||2000|My Generation|Himself|Film||2001|The End of the Road |Himself|Film||2001|Ram Dass, Fierce Grace|Himself|Film||2005|The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose||Film||2006|Breaking the Rules |Himself|Film||2008|Battleground Earth|Himself|Television|episode “Ludacris vs. Tommy Lee”|2008|(Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo)|Himself|FilmMockumentary>Mockumentary film.HTTP://WWW.METROACTIVE.COM/BOHEMIAN/01.02.08/MUSIC-CLAYPOOL-0801.HTML>TITLE=LES CLAYPOOL’S ‘ELECTRIC APRICOT’FIRST=GABEWEBSITE=WWW.METROACTIVE.COM, 2020-01-02, |2009|(Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie)|Himself|FilmLAST=GANDYDATE=2011-10-03LANGUAGE=EN-USTITLE=’SAINT MISBEHAVIN’: THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE’ REVIEWACCESS-DATE=APRIL 15, 2018TITLE=WAVY GRAVY PORTRAIT KEEPS UP THE CLOWN’S DISGUISEURL-STATUS=DEADTHE VILLAGE VOICE>ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://ARCHIVE.TODAY/20130630135919/HTTP://WWW.VILLAGEVOICE.COM/2010-12-08/FILM/WAVY-GRAVY-PORTRAIT-KEEPS-UP-THE-CLOWN-S-DISGUISE/?REF_=TTEXRV_EXRV_2ACCESS-DATE=APRIL 15, 2018, |2009|Woodstock: Now & Then|Himself|Film||2019|Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation|Himself|FilmLAST=ROTTERDATE=2019-05-29LANGUAGE=EN-USdate=2019language=en|access-date=2020-01-02}}|2021|“Saint Stupid The Movie recut“|Himself|Film by Bishop Joeyvimeo.com/547299331?ref=em-share

Books

• BOOK, The Hog Farm and Friends, Gravy, Wavy, Links Books, Foreword by Ken Kesey, 1974, 0-8256-3014-2, New York City, New York,
• BOOK, Something Good for a Change: Random Notes on Peace Thru Living, Gravy, Wavy, St Martins Press, 1992, 0-312-07838-2, New York City, New York, registration,archive.org/details/somethinggoodfor00wavy,

Recordings

• AV MEDIA, Beat Generation Jazz Poetry, Folk Lyrics, John Brent, Len Chandler and Hugh Romney at the Gaslight, Greenwich Village, 1960, LP, en, Musitron Records, New York City, New York, WEB,lpcoverlover.com/2008/07/12/cooking-at-the-gaslight/, Village voices, 12 July 2008, lpcoverlover.com, April 15, 2018,
• Third Stream Humor (as Hugh Romney), World Pacific (1962)
• Old Feathers, New Bird: The 80s Are the 60s Twenty Years Later, Wavy Gravy, Relix (1988)
• (Bear’s Sonic Journals: Sing Out!), various artists, recorded April 25, 1981 at the Berkeley Community Theater, released February 23, 2024 by the Owsley Stanley Foundation

Recognition

Ben & Jerry’s Wavy Gravy ice cream flavor is named for Romney. Until 2001, Ben & Jerry’s produced an ice cream named “Wavy Gravy” (caramel-cashew-Brazil nut base with a chocolate hazelnut fudge swirl and roasted almonds) which helped drive a scholarship fund for underprivileged kids to attend his Camp Winnarainbow.WEB,thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/wavy_gravy.html, Wavy Gravy 1960’s icon and activist, Miserandino, Dominick A., TheCelebrityCafe.com, dead,thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/wavy_gravy.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20060101031505thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/wavy_gravy.html,">web.archive.org/web/20060101031505thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/wavy_gravy.html, January 1, 2006, July 29, 2018, NEWS, Pener, Degen, EGOS & IDS; Tie-Dye With Gravy Strains,www.nytimes.com/1992/05/24/style/egos-ids-tie-dye-with-gravy-strains.html, 27 March 2022, The New York Times, 24 May 1992, PRESS RELEASE, Ben & Jerry’s, RIP: Ice Cream Mourners Pay their Respects at Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard,www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rip-ice-cream-mourners-pay-their-respects-at-ben--jerrys-flavor-graveyard-300727451.html, prnewswire.com, 27 March 2022, en, WEB, Hubbard, Thomas, Company Background: Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc.,www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/hubbard/htm/research/ec174/benjer2.htm, Econ 174, Kellogg School of Management, 27 March 2022, NEWS, Desborough, Jenny, All the Ben & Jerry’s Ice cream flavors that have been discontinued,www.newsweek.com/ben-jerrys-graveyard-discontinued-ice-cream-flavors-1638042, 27 March 2022, Newsweek, 12 October 2021, en, WEB, What It’s Like to Be a Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Guru,www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/what-does-a-ben-jerry-s-flavor-guru-do, Thrillist, January 19, 2015, 27 March 2022, en, ...Peter Lind lives it every day. Lind is one of five Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Gurus whose days are filled with ice cream development and tasting., WEB, Rainforest Crunch,www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard/rainforest-crunch, Ben & Jerry’s, 27 March 2022, WEB, Final resting place of Ben & Jerry’s Wavy Gravy ice cream,www.benjerry.com/flavors/flavor-graveyard/wavy-gravy, Ben & Jerry’s, 27 March 2022, WEB, What Happened to Wavy Gravy?,www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2014/wavy-gravy, Ben & Jerry’s, 27 March 2022, NEWS, Ben & Jerry’s embarrassed by scoop over nuts,www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-07-28-1995209002-story.html, 27 March 2022, Baltimore Sun, Several months later, Ben & Jerry’s began quietly removing the claims from its Rainforest Crunch labels. “It would be misleading at this time to imply that 100 percent of the profits from 100 percent of the nuts would be used to help Xapuri,” Mr. Cohen admitted in a recent interview., WEB, benandjerrys, Ben & Jerry’s on Twitter,twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/972560432295800832, Twitter, 27 March 2022, en, How many of you remember Wavy Gravy? This nutty flavor is one of only a very few to ever be resurrected from the Flavor Graveyard. Get the full story here >> t.co/KiALQVOCeH #peaceloveicecream t.co/Tq4Kj3j7n4, NEWS, Calta, Marialisa, OUT THERE: WATERBURY, VT.; The Ice-Cream Sorcerer,www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/style/out-there-waterbury-vt-the-ice-cream-sorcerer.html, 27 March 2022, The New York Times, 21 March 1993, {{Excessive citations inline|date=October 2022}}

See also

• List of peace activists

References

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External links

• {{official websitewww.wavygravy.net/}}
• Camp Winnarainbow
• Seva Foundation
• {{YouTube|L55m4kjfRro|Wavy Gravy video from Seventh Hour Blues}}
• video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5052096054843836584&q=goldpants%2Bproductions" title="web.archive.org/web/20070520070738video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5052096054843836584&q=goldpants%2Bproductions">Wavy Gravy’s 70th Birthday Bash
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• www.savagewatch.com/westhartfordcelebs.html" title="web.archive.org/web/20170914034755www.savagewatch.com/westhartfordcelebs.html">Wavy Gravy High School Yearbook Photograph

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