Living Worlds
A San Francisco park in summer 1967, volunteers serving free food, someone playing guitar, painted wooden houses beyond.

1960–2000 · San Francisco, summer 1967

Free Kitchen

Whoever comes is fed.

The law of Free Kitchen

Whoever comes is fed.

San Francisco, 1967: about 100,000 young people come to one neighbourhood. In the park next door, volunteers hand out free food, and someone is always playing music.

A young volunteer ladling soup at a free-food table in a San Francisco park.

A life in Free Kitchen · composite, based on the record

A volunteer, twenty-two

She ladles soup for whoever is in the line. Most days the pot is empty by four.

Meanwhile, in the same age

The electric century

A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

Which world will you live in?