THE HIPPIE IN HIGH PARK

I have been looking for interesting trips to take my mom on.  Today, we went to High Park to see the HIPPIE sculpture which was part of the 1967 Sculpture Symposium.  I got a better pic from the artists website (Bill Koochin) and see that at one time there were sunglasses and a nose which today are missing and makes his face look weird and angry.  He looks so much cooler in the 60's but then didn't we all. (He also has a LOVE pin on his lapel.)

The Hippie is located just west of the HIGH PARK FOREST SCHOOL - The Forest School of High Park was established by the Toronto Board of Education and the Public Health Department around 1913, as a summer school for underprivileged children, initially those with tuberculosis. The school provided nutritious food, lots of exercise, instruction in health and hygiene, and even afternoon naps. The classes were later used to boost the health of children who were “below par physically” because of “faulty nutrition, emotional upsets, or social aberrations,” according to one report from Public Health. The Forest School came to be associated with “poor kids”. It closed in 1963.

I lived in High Park and never remember seeing the Hippie or the school.  

Forest School High Park (current image)