"The Last Twelve Hours of the Whole Earth" (3pp., photo-illustrated) in ROLLING STONE #86 (July 8, 1971 - UK issue).
A report on the 'Demise Party' held at the Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts in the San Francisco Marina district on June 12, 1971, an event organised by Stewart Brand to celebrate what he thought would be the final edition of the Whole Earth Catalog and its publishing project. "At around 10.30pm, the 'exact nature' of the educational event was 'revealed' in a fell stroke of Brandian genius that at once made everything fall into place… Brand, who had spent the last three years providing the movement with access to tools, was now presenting it with the heaviest..... More about "The Last Twelve Hours of the Whole Earth" (3pp., photo-illustrated) in ROLLING STONE...