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I just realized that 1967 was forty years ago. What made me think of this was seeing a note about the San Francisco Be-In in January 1967, and the one in New York City's Central Park in March. March 26th, actually.
1967 seems, at least to me, to have been a really big deal. And if you were in your 20's and you lived in New York City, as I did then, the Central Park Be-In was an all-important event that probably had an effect on everything that followed.
I know I'll be thinking about this all month, and reporting my findings here.
In the meantime, I have some pictures from that moment over here.
Richard, thanks for this---while I was only 6 at the time, I remember the 60's very well, and even miss it to some extent (the culture, not the bloodshed). Wish we had more of that spirit these days...sigh...
That's what started me thinking. But I just can't put it into words yet... about how different these times are, on so many levels, and yet so much of what we take for granted today were revolutionary ideas in 1967 ... some of which got us into political, cultural, and personal trouble. Got to ponder this some more before I can make sense of it all.
When you make sense of it, let me know. I was 11 in 1967, living in Richmond, Indiana, and keeping a weather eye on happenings in Haight-Ashbury and the drug culture. NYC was, to my impoverishment, off my radar then. It was good to come of age, to a small extent, in an era when people were taking love seriously as a political and social force, when white people took as much care about Indian rights and "Negro" rights (women's rights were still to come, as I recall) as about their own, our own, comforts and immediate concerns. It would be instructive to read a week's worth of papers from 1967, to see what was in them that is no longer in papers now, and what is in papers now (i.e, Christian fascism as opposed to love on Easter) that was not in them then.
