This is a site dedicated to the life of writer, musician, and activist Ronald David Lowe, d. Dec. 27, 2001.

I met Ronnie when I was fresh out of high school. He was the unelected leader of our little band of activists, the Liberator collective of 1970-71 or thereabouts.

For the next five years, off and on, we published underground newspapers, organized demonstrations, and generally messed around. We fought against war, racism, capitalism, and among ourselves.

The for a quarter century I had no contact with him.

Then he died.

The Ronnie I knew was the kind of person who would do anything for a friend – lend a car, a gun, all his money, go out in the middle of the night, talk someone down from a high or up from a hangover. He was no saint. His advice could be the the smartest hipster wisdom or the most arrant nonsense. He had a voice you could listen to all night and the stories to make it worthwhile. He was a lot of fun to be around, a lot of the time.

But I only know a small part of what really went on. For the last two years I’ve hosted a small, sad website with a few pages of links. All its content is now in posts on this page. That site was never intended to be. It was a stand-in for what was really supposed to happen- manuscripts, pictures, narratives, other things that people were going to send me, but almost none of that ever happened.

Only one of Ronnie’s friends ever sent me any material, and I haven’t had the time or heart to do anything with it until now.

I hope that is going to change now. If you want to contribute your memories or other things about Ronnie’s life and times, or about the other people who were around St. Petersburg in those days, all you have to do is register and post.