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After doing some research on the New York Times archives website, I discovered that I had the date wrong in my photo notebook. I had the date as March 12. But it really was Sunday March 26th, Easter.
Bernard Weinraub's article that appeared on page one on Monday was titled: "10,000 Chant 'L-O-V-E'; L-O-V-E IS THEME OF PARK 'BE-IN'".
"They circled policemen and shrieked it. They strummed guitars and sang of it. They painted their foreheads pink with it. And they jumped up and down and hollered it.
Poets from the Bronx, dropouts from the East Village, interior decorators from the East Side, teachers from the West Side and teeny-boppers from Long Island trooped into muddy Central Park yesterday for a noisy, swarming, chaotic and utterly surrealistic "Be-In."
From dawn to dusk, more that 10,000 people jammed the Sheep Meadow for the "happening" (to squares) or the "Be-In" (to hippies) with the single aim to express love to mankind on Easter Sunday." (excerpt from article originally published 3/27/67 NYT)
