An upcoming reunion celebrating "the oldtimer hippies" of Bolinas was canceled last week because some townspeople fear "over-the-hill publicity," coordinator Herman Berlandt told The Light.

"My intent was to contact the fabulous people who shaped the creative spirit of Bolinas - like Ponderosa Pine, Piero Resta, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti - and gather them together for an evening," Berlandt said. "I expected about 300 people to come."

Slated for June 21, the soirŽe was "just a sentimental impulse" of the longtime Bolinas resident, who said he was "condemned" for sending hippie-reunion announcements outside of West Marin.

Although Berlandt's announcements were, in part, an attempt to reach oldtime hippies who once lived in Bolinas, it resulted primarily in publicity for a 1960s "Summer of Love" fest published in The Chronicle and Pacific Sun; poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti also posted an announcement in the window of his City Lights Bookstore in North Beach.

As a result, the planned venue, the Bolinas Community Center is no longer available for the event.

Malcolm Ponder, treasurer of the center, said the publicity was "clearly a violation" of the community center's rental agreement and of the town's "reason for being...

"The rental agreement states that this type of event is not to be promoted," Ponder said. "No advertising is allowed outside Marin county for any event, except dances, which can only be advertised within West Marin." Privacy is prized in Bolinas, he explained.

"People who live in town were afraid that a bunch of out-of-towners would come here [for the hippie reunion] on top of those already coming to celebrate the summer solstice. We'd end up with all sorts of vans and buses here. We don't want our town inundated on a Saturday night."

On June 21, he added, the center will be "dark... There may be a sign on the door which says, 'There will be no Summer of Love celebration here.'"