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In 1968, even supercilious Boston was ankle-deep in LSD

17 March 2018

9:00 AM

17 March 2018

9:00 AM

‘And this is good old Boston/, The home of the bean and the cod,’ John Collins Bossidy quipped in 1910, ‘Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots/, And the Cabots talk only to God.’ Also home, in 1968, to Mel Lyman, a folk musician turned LSD guru who believed he was God, and to Van Morrison.

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