Updated: 10/07/2021

Wavy Gravy

Wavy Gravy was born on the 15th of May, 1936. He is famous for being an Activist. During the early years of his performance career, he was a talent management client of the comedian Lenny Bruce. Wavy Gravy’s age is 85. Known for his comic hippie and clown personas and for his peace activism, this American counterculture figure founded a non-profit healthcare group called the Seva Foundation; a circus program called Camp Winnarainbow; and a California commune called the Hog Farm.

The 85-year-old activist was born in New York, United States. After serving briefly in the United States Army, he studied theater at Boston University under the G.I. bill. His life was the subject of a 2010 documentary film titled Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie.

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Wavy Gravy was born in the 1930s. The 1930s were called the Great Depression (1929-1939). It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. Despite the Great Depression, Hollywood and popular film production flourished. Radio was the main source of entertainment, information, and political propaganda, and jazz, blues, gospel, and folk music, became immensely popular. Discover what happened on this day.

Wavy Gravy is part of the Silent Generation, which followed after the G.I. Generation. As young adults during the McCarthy Era, many members of this generation felt it was dangerous to speak out. They were too young to see action in World War II and too old to participate in the fun of the Summer of Love.

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While we don't know Wavy Gravy's birth time, but we do know his mother gave birth to him on a Friday. People who are born on a Friday are social, have self-confidence, and have generous personalities. They have a flair for beauty, elegance, romance, affection, and refinement.

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Wavy Song

Wavy Gravy –

The Last Hippie On The Planet

(World Press)

Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Nanton Romney on May 15, 1936) is a life-long activist for peace and personal empowerment, best known for his hippie appearance, personality, and beliefs. I can’t think of a cooler guy on the planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy

His parents knew Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein who once held his hand and took him for a walk around the block when he was small. At one time he shared an apartment with singer-songwriter Tom Paxton in Greenwich Village and Romney was one of Bob Dylan’s earliest friends in New York CIty. The blues guitarist B.B.King gave him the name ‘Wavy Gravy”.

Wavy founded a commune, the Hog Farm Collective. They were hired to help organize the Woodstock Festival in 1969. 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 instant response was “Cream pies and seltzer bottles.”

Today, the Hog Farm is still in existence, with various locations including a headquarters in Berkeley, CA, and a 200+ acre farm in Laytonville, CA, known as Black Oak Ranch. Black Oak Ranch is also home to Wavy Gravy’s performing arts camp for children, Camp Winnarainbow.

Wavy founded the Seva Foundation in 1978. Seva, based in Berkeley, CA, is an international development organization dedicated to ending poverty around the world.

Seva Foundation

Wavy Gravy is also the co-founder (along with his wife) of Camp Winnareinbow, a circus and performing arts camp. The camp emphasizes experiential learning by urging campers to try new skills. The camp also teaches how to be a positive influence to the community.

Camp Winnareinbow