Richard Jergenson

Richard Jergenson is a product of Berkeley and the 1960’s counter culture, as well as a co-founder of the Protopipe business, over 50 years ago. He is a natural archivist, as a young historian from the 1960’s he began saving and storing the amazing posters, books and cultural icons of the times, which continues to be a life-long passion. The Counter Culture Museum and Archive is now a treasure trove of the counter cultural era of the 1960's, 70's and 80's. CCMA has exhibited at several Emerald Cups, built the Emerald City Popup Museum in 2020, and curated the “Cannabis in Mendocino County: our Story” exhibit with panel discussions in 2023. (Mendocino County Museum) They joined the Counter culture History Coalition in 2023. He continues to add to this Counter Culture & Cannabis Archive. It includes the 80 year prohibition history as well as artifacts from the Back to the Land movement here in Northern California - the Emerald Triangle and beyond.